Aspects of Robertson Davies' NovelsAuthor :
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Published : Wednesday 25 February 2009
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Completing the survey begun in Lamsâ?T Cornish Trilogy volume, Aspects of Robertson Daviesâ?T Novels discusses the Salterton and Deptford trilogies along with Daviesâ?T last two novels, Murther & Walking Spirits and The Cunning Man. The apprentice effort Tempest-Tost and the journeymanâ?Ts success Leaven of Malice were followed by Daviesâ?T first genuinely fine novel, A Mixture of Frailties, the story of a talented Salterton girl who becomes a world-famous soprano. The Deptford trilogy is discussed in terms of Northrop Fryeâ?Ts A«confessionA» form as it appears in Fifth Business, and in variations of that form in The Manticore and World of Wonders. Although Daviesâ?T Jungian enthusiasms produced certain flaws to which readers have objected, Murther & Walking Spirits is by no means a failure; it is best understood as an implicit spiritual history of Canada which is adumbrated in the generational experience of a single Canadian family. The Cunning Man concludes Daviesâ?T career with a narrative as rewardingly complex as any of the Cornish trilogy novels.
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