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 David Madden or similar is the name of: David Madden (Jeopardy! contestant) David Madden (novelist) Dave Madden, actor David Madden (author,... 
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05/10/2002: 832 words, approx. 3 pages THREE JUNES By Julia Glass Pantheon. 353 pp. $25"Three Junes" is billed as a novel, but it's actually three different novellas that could have been written by two different people. Novella No. 1, "Collies," set in 1989, is the elegantly constructed...
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 Critical Essay by Webster Schott
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Among other themes, Pleasure-Dome ponders [the] "surrender" of Lucius Hutchfield to the Coleridge syndrome, intoxication by imagination. Lucius is the same young lover of illusion who worked in the movie house that gave David Madden's novel Bijou (1974) its title. Since then he may have expanded his romantic references beyond films and Thomas Wolfe, but he is still hooked on the narcotic of fantasy and its intellectual superior, art. As he wanders over the ruins of Zara's life an... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Bob Fleshman
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Harlequin's Stick—Charlie's Cane is a playful instrument, an academic toy. This is not to say the work is unimportant. The movie industry was based upon scientific, optical toys, such as the zoetrope. What David Madden has given us is a gift in the form of a scholarly peepshow…. (p. 285) Mr. Madden's volume comes at a good time. It seems obvious, and appropriate to his [subjects, Commedia dell'Arte and the silent movie], that Mr. Madden has a great sense of fun and ... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Frank Kelly
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"The unmoonlit life is not worth living." So says Lucius Hutchfield, narrator of Pleasure-Dome, and that is perhaps as straightforward a thematic statement as can be gleaned from this odd, lyrical, quite wonderful novel. Unlike most contemporary fiction, it is neither urban in setting nor psychological in attack. It shares the first-person narrator of much recent work, but it does not share its almost obsessive concern with the narrator's inner life. Lucius' personal growth throu...
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