author: robert t tally

... novel). Player Piano not only delves more deeply into the heart of the malaise of the fifties, but it also registers a distinctive political attitude that affects Vonnegut's later writings.13 Because of the emphasis on technology ...

... Lukács's critical contrast of realism and naturalism in “Narrate or Describe.” Lukács notes that the distinction between realist narration and naturalist description is identical to the distinction between experiencing and observing ...

... The Atlas of Middle - earth ( Boston : Houghton Miff- lin , 1991 ) . One might also mention a rather different type of literary geography , rooted primarily in fandom , by which the realms of Tolkien's Middle - earth are somehow ...

... Silmarillion ( or the “ Silmarillion ” ) : that is , the story of Húrin and his children , the adventures of Beren and Lúthien , and the narrative of the events leading to the fall of Gondolin . To these have been added a steady stream ...

... mapping the territory and territorializing the maps. Odysseus. the. Bard. Toward the middle of the Odyssey, there is a striking scene in which the narrative shifts dramatically from an almost literally Olympian point of view to a first ...

This book is intended as a provocation, at once a polemic and a call to action for cultural critics.

... poems had already identified his current age, what follows must be a kind of whimsical and Byronic joke. Speaking of the theme of “Tamerlane ... Other Poems, “[h]e will not say that he is indifferent as to the success of these Poems—it might ...

... story of The Hobbit is quite well known, but a brief plot summary may be useful. The narrative itself is rather episodic, with almost every chapter containing its own mini-adventure, but the cumulative effect is significant. This is ...

... advanced technology—to think the impossible totality of the contemporary world system.”11 Or, as he put it elsewhere ... hero's quest, if only for survival, with a return or closure that seals the plot, forming a kind of narrative ...