Dorothy Richardson: The Genius They Forgot. Wells on DMR, but she "moved far beyond the example Wells provided (of "a conversational style," "the…use of a realistic eye and ear," "mimicry, and of the novel as a means of furthering advanced' ideas"), in that "she created a world of her won beyond the frontiers of the conventional novel, in the writing of Pilgrimage, she contributed to the overthrow of fictional clichés." "In purpose as well as style was an innovator she had no inhibitions about going against.the currents of her time." Pilgrimage, furthermore, "is closer to the art of autobiography than to fiction." Its personal roots lie deep in her own life, while its "literary roots are decisively English, and are to be found in the writings of Charlotte Bronte." One also cannot ignore the "practical and personal as well as literary" influence of H.G. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1967.īiographical-critical study.
Dorothy Richardson: An Adventure in Self-Discovery. San Francisco, CA: Chandler, 1965.ĭiscusses Richardson, William Faulkner and Leo Tolstoy. Blake's speculative method often entails a noting of correspondences in language between studies of mysticism and the metaphorical descriptions of the heroine's thought and feelings.Įastman, Richard M.
"purification" in Dawn's Left Hand, and "illumination" in Dimple Hill.
He finds evidence of "conversion" in Oberland. Blake does not claim that Pilgrimage is "an exercise in philosophical disquisition." He merely offers a reading in the framework of the "Mystic Way," a reading which he feels can supply DMR's work with a unity and theme that it has seemed to lack. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1960.Ī full-length study of Pilgrimage as a mystical novel. Sewanee, Tenn.: The University Press, 1934. Pedestal for Statue: The Novels of Dorothy M. Notes also her achievement in conveying the qualities of place, and her linguistic gifts.
London: Joiner & Steele, 1931.Ĭompares DMR's heroine to Faust and Hamlet in her "female quest for the essence of human experience," and DMR herself is likened to Dostoyevski as "original philosopher and artist." points out that DMR refused to be bound by any systems of thought that there would be no "neat denouement" to her novel, no "spiritual formula" to round out the whole of the work and that DMR was trying to express fundamental differences between man and woman in their apprehension of life. Books and Articles in which DMR is mentioned Untranslated Foreign Language Books and Articlesģ.6. Detailed Bibliography of Dorothy Richardson Works on Richardsonģ.1 Books 3.2 Articles in Books and Periodicals 3.2.1 Articles in Books and Periodicals 1915-1945 3.2.2 Articles in Books and Periodicals 1946-1965ģ.2.3 Articles in Books and Periodicals 1965-1993ģ.2.4 Articles in Books and Periodicals since 1993ģ.5.
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