Critical Essay by Michael Taylor
We no longer believe that some subjects are more appropriate for literary treatment than others: nowadays, every human activity, no matter how banal or disgusting, of...
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Critical Essay by Thomas R. Edwards
Timothy Findley's "The Wars" is … elegantly written and structured and well aware of what can't be said about important human ex...
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Critical Essay by Gary T. Davenport
[Brevity] is disastrous in the hands of Timothy Findley. In fact understatement of a very slick and ineffective sort is chronically recurrent in The Wars…. ...
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Critical Essay by Bruce Pirie
In Timothy Findley's novel The Wars, Robert Ross, soon after arriving in Europe, finds himself leading a line of horses through thick green fog. The foul smell of...
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The Wars, by Timothy Findley, explores many of the obsessions that color all of Findley's writing: violence, loneliness, a concern for animal rights, and the survival of the individual in war. As th...
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Lorraine York observes that "for Findley, this is what the war does: it perverts the natural." This observation will be discussed with respect to the natural elements of earth and fire.
The earth i...
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War And The Media: Day after day, Americans are treated to a never-ending, mind-numbing parade of statistics about the number of U.S. troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. But what about the terro...
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War On Terror: In a sly semantic move, a Democrat House Committee secretly ordered the removal of all references to the "Global War On Terror," nonchalantly claiming it wasn't political. Who are th...
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"You have a one-lap cushion, the Aston is in the garage, and you are five laps ahead of the next car," crew chief Ray Gongla radioed Jan Magnussen.After his No. 64 Chevrolet Corvette C6.R had dogge...
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Mike said a little while ago that the Iraq war isn't a local issue, and Newsday smacked him for it.
Today, he got the same question, and responded that it's "a national issue and a local issue."
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Is the Iraq war to become a permanent feature? The war persists despite the opposition of a majority of Americans and Iraqis. The war persists...
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It should mean a great deal to progressives that Sen. Ted Kennedy favors Sen. Barack Obama over two other colleagues he has worked with in the Senate. No one in the history of that institution has ...
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This is, to be sure, not the same as the experience in Southern Lebanon. Who is eating a rib steak with a Stella a few miles from the border there, sending it back because it's too rare, needs anot...
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Critical Essay by Michael Taylor
The Wars: Analysis of the Rape of Robert Ross
Scoring The War
