Whether it is right or advisable to create beings like Heathcliff, I do not know: I scarcely think it is. But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master — something that, at times, strangely... The Living Age - Pagina 5571908Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
| David Norton - 1993 - 512 pagine
...possihly from her own expetience, that 'the wtiter who possesses the creative gift owns something of wh1ch he is not always master- something that at times strangely wills and works for irself. Lawrence purs the idea most challengingly: 'the artist usually sers out - or used to - to point... | |
| Robert M. Polhemus - 1995 - 400 pagine
...right or advisable to create beings like Heathcliff, I do not know: I scarcely think it is. But this I know: the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master—something that at times strangely wills and works for itself." 23 What Emily wills to express... | |
| Charlotte Brontë - 1995 - 866 pagine
...right or advisable to create beings like Heathcliff, I do not know: I scarcely think it is. But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns...will perhaps for years lie in subjection; and then, 12 WH 44, ll. 24-7, quoted from memory. 13 WH 411, ll. 7-8, similarly quoted. 14 An Afreet is 'an evil... | |
| Patsy Stoneman - 2000 - 224 pagine
...sister's prefatory remarks: 'the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he \sic] is not always master something that at times strangely wills and works for itself. Critics of Wuthering Heights as diverse as Fredric Jameson and Frank Kermode have remarked on its unsettling... | |
| Richard Eugene Mezo - 2002 - 114 pagine
...right or advisable to create beings like Heathcliff, I do not know: I scarcely think it is. But this I know: the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master—something that, at times, strangely wills and works for itself. He may lay down rules and... | |
| Heather Glen - 2002 - 276 pagine
...propriety co-exists uneasily with the imaginative impulse: that 'creative gift of which [the writer] is not always master - something that at times strangely wills and works for itself', as Charlotte Bronte put it, attempting to explain and excuse her sister's creation of Heathcliff, in... | |
| M.P. Singh - 2005 - 324 pagine
...Aldiss "One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude." — Carl Sandburg "The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always mastersomething that at time strangely wills and works for itself." — Charlotte Bronte "The thing... | |
| Marianne Thormählen - 2007 - 10 pagine
...over-zealously. Creative writers confronted with Charlotte's description of the power of which the owner 'is not always master — something that at times strangely wills and works for itself (327) are more apt to recognise what their colleague was talking about a century and a half ago.31... | |
| 1851 - 598 pagine
...create beings like Heathcliff. I do not know : I scarcely think it is. But this I know, the writ er who possesses the creative gift owns something of...which he is not always master — something that at time;strangely wills and works for itself. He may lay down rules and devise principles, and to rules... | |
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