In the following essay, the anonymous critic maintains that The Monk expounds lessons of virtue, rather than of vice, as many reviewers have contended.
It is with no inconsiderable pain that I have...
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In the following review, the critic describes the literary sources of The Monk, adding that obscenity "pervades and deforms the whole organization of this novel. "
This novel has a do...
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In the following excerpt, Summers details the composition, contemporary critical reception, plot, style, sources, translations, adaptations, and literary influence of The Monk. Only those footnotes pe...
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In the following essay, Gose undertakes a psychoanalytic survey of The Monk, noting its "unresolved tensions" of "sexual conflict, violated taboos, and self-destructive impulses.&...
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In the following essay, Grudin assesses the "formal coherence " of The Monk, claiming that evidence for its structural unity exists in an interpretation of Matilda as a demonic being.
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In the following essay, Lydenberg investigates "Lewis's ambivalence toward his authorial responsibility" as moral judge in The Monk.
The Gothic novel is rarely, if ever, celebr...
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In the following essay, Kauhl examines the motif of transgression, as both a psychological and a political fact in The Monk.
In the Madrid of the Inquisition, "a city where superstition reig...
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Nearly 400 monks staged a peaceful demonstration in the central
Myanmar town of Kyauk Padaung on Monday, showing their discontent on
the ruling junta.
The monks in Kyauk Padaung, about 600...
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Some 400 Buddhist monks staged a march Tuesday in Yangon,
apparently to protest against hardships faced by Myanmar's people and
the junta's crackdown on a sim...
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Buddhist monks from different monasteries protested in four
areas of Yangon on Wednesday against hardships faced by Myanmar's
people and the junta's crackdown on a similar pr...
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(EDS: UPDATING WITH FRESH INFO)
Some 400 monks staged a peaceful march Tuesday in Yangon,
apparently to protest against hardships faced by Myanmar's people and
the junta's crackdown on a sim...
Read more
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka _ The tale of the Buddhist monk and his shiny, new Mercedes-Benz has fueled a bizarre national drama that has angered Sri Lankans and tainted a group of revered religious leaders...
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Yangon (dpa) - On the surface, life in Yangon is proceeding as
normal.
Small buses jerked their way Thursday through Myanmar's largest
city as store owners ra...
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China's Shaolin Temple has demanded a public apology from an Internet user who claimed a Japanese ninja beat its kung fu-practicing monks in a showdown, a lawyer said Friday.An open letter from the...
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Yangon (dpa) - Myanmar's military regime rounded up more than a
hundred monks in raids of Yangon temples after midnight and stationed
hundreds of troops at key sites in the ...
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A monastery will halt its egg farming business after claims by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals that the trappist monks mistreated hens.Father Stan Gumula of Mepkin Abbey said in a state...
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Nearly 1,000 Buddhist monks, joined by thousands of their countrymen, marched in Myanmar's largest city Thursday in the biggest challenge in at least a decade to the iron-fisted junta, a show of st...
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Critical Essay by "A Friend to Genius"
Hundreds of monks protest against junta in Myanmar
