Graham Swift is a spellbinding storyteller whose primary concerns, in his novels, are the experience of loss and the ways in which human beings try to come to terms with loss. Real and symbolic bereav...
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An American critic and educator, Higdon is the editor of Conradiana. In the following excerpt, he analyzes Swift's use of closure in Waterland and his other novels.
'One beginning and on...
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An American educator, editor, and critic, Landow frequently writes about Victorian literature and writers as well as on issues regarding hypertext and electronic publishing. In the following essay, he...
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Wilt is an American educator and nonfiction writer. In the following excerpt, she discusses the conflicts and issues associated with abortion in Waterland.
Empathetic with women characters, deeply con...
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Beneath the occasional story of suicide, murder, insanity, incest, abortion, and mental retardation are a few inquiries about the nature of history. What is history? Why does one study it? Can the pas...
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Teaching Waterland
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Waterland Lesson Plans contain 193 pages of teaching material, including:
Amsterdam (dpa) - Riding a bike through the Waterland north of
Amsterdam brings us back to the Dutch Golden Age.
Waterland covers an area of 115 square kilometres, 6...
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Graham (Colin) Swift
Critical Essay by David Leon Higdon
Waterland: History Repeated?
Discovering Amsterdam's picturesque Waterlands by bike
