The Long Apprenticeship: Alienation in the Early Work of Alan Sillitoe - Couverture souple

Sawkins, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3906764508 ISBN 13 : 9783906764504

Editeur : Verlag Peter Lang, 2001

Synopsis

This study of Alan Sillitoe's early work focuses in particular on Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958) and The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (1959). John Sawkins sees their heroes Arthur Seaton and Colin Smith in their resistance to a conformist society as embodying the concept of Alienation (Estrangement). As such they are representatives of a tradition that goes back in its original metaphysical sense to Langland, Milton, Bunyan and the Bible and in its social and economic senses to Karl Marx, John Ruskin, William Blake und Albert Camus. Sawkins also suggests that Sillitoe's characters have perhaps acquired the dignity of standard-bearers. What rights do they uphold, what wrongs do they sustain ? Or are they merely trouble-makers in an otherwise orderly society ?

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

The Author : John Sawkins was born in 1924 and studied English and History at Cambridge. From 1965 to 1990 he taught English language and literature in the English Seminar of the new Ruhr University, including courses on Shakespeare, Milton, Dickens and Blake.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Verlag Peter Lang
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3906764508
• ISBN 13: 9783906764504
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 297
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• Personne responsable: non disponible