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Date of Award
1975
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (M.A.)
Department
Graduate School
First Advisor
Ruth Marie Faurot
First Committee Member
Louis H. Leiter[?]
Second Committee Member
Maurice McCullen
Abstract
This paper will demonstrate how Bennett’s “circumstantial” history of his age, as it streams by the reader, is controlled, analyzed, and interpreted. The framework of characters and events stand firm, their foundations solid in the systematic working-out, through symbolism and irony, of Bennett’s conviction that there is a “cause and effect” relationship between the physical environment and the character and sociological evolution and the character. Bennett writes that “the spirit of literature… enforces a moral wisdom by tracing everywhere of cause and effect.” The structures of characters and events are raised, reinforced, illuminated, inspected, and photographed through the use of symbolism, irony, and multiple points of view. Organized detail bricks in the framework.
Pages
122
Recommended Citation
Green, Laura Maurine. (1975). Structural cohesion in Arnold Bennett's Clayhanger trilogy. University of the Pacific, Thesis. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/1880
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