In the following excerpt, Cockburn provides an in-depth analysis of character, theme, and setting in Two Solitudes. Overall, he finds the first half of the novel aesthetically and intellectually super...
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In the essay below, Arnason discusses MacLennan's formulation of a Canadian consciousness in Barometer Rising and Two Solitudes.
Hugh MacLennan published his first novel, Barometer Rising, i...
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In the essay below, Stevenson argues that the idea of "individual self-awareness" is an important though neglected secondary theme that adds to the unity of Two Solitudes.
It has beco...
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Critical Essay by Warren Stevenson
It has become almost a commonplace of criticism of Hugh MacLennan's Two Solitudes to say that the novel succeeds brilliantly up to the end of the twenty-nint...
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Critical Essay by Robert H. Cockburn
