Critical Essay by Bob Fleshman
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...
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Critical Essay by James Park Sloan
David Madden's "Pleasure-Dome" is …, in its way, a meditation on time and change, and in the manner of the New Fiction it combines profl...
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Critical Essay by Frank Kelly
"The unmoonlit life is not worth living." So says Lucius Hutchfield, narrator of Pleasure-Dome, and that is perhaps as straightforward a thematic statement...
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Critical Essay by Webster Schott
Among other themes, Pleasure-Dome ponders [the] "surrender" of Lucius Hutchfield to the Coleridge syndrome, intoxication by imagination. Lucius is the s...
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Critical Essay by Bob Fleshman
