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Volume Introduction by Harold BloomxviiPainting in All Its Branches, by Gerard de Lairesse, a book in hisfather’s library that Browning had memorized in his childhood.By tradition, the poem’s obsessed monologist is known as ChildeRoland, which is true to the poem’s imaginative pattern though not toits letter. Childe Roland is an unique quester, because he wants to fail.His heart springs up at “finding failure in its scope.” All his companionsin the quest have been disgraced as cowards and traitors, andthough he himself is both heroic and loyal his love for his forerunnersaugments his manic intensity to fail as they did.The reader increasingly is made aware that he can give no credenceto what the Childe thinks he sees. If we rode by his side we would seea wretched landscape no doubt, but not nearly as apocalyptic as theone Roland fiercely describes. The culminating negative vision representsan apotheosis of the grotesque:If there pushed any ragged thistle-stalkAbove its mates, the head was chopped; the bentsWere jealous else. What made those holes and rentsIn the dock’s harsh swarth leaves, bruised as to baulkAll hope of greenness? ’tis a brute must walkPashing their life out, with a brute’s intents.As for the grass, it grew as scant as hairIn leprosy; thin dry blades pricked the mudWhich underneath looked kneaded up with blood.One stiff blind horse, his every bone a-stare,Stood stupefied, however he came there:Thrust out past service from the devil’s stud!We hear a little child’s voice here, desperate at being left alonewith a suffering beast. And then suddenly the crisis of his life andquest burningly assaults Roland:What in the midst lay but the Tower itself?The round squat turret, blind as the fool’s heart,Built of brown stone, without a counterpartIn the whole world. The tempest’s mocking elfPoints to the shipman thus the unseen shelfHe strikes on, only when the timbers start.
xviiiVolume Introduction by Harold BloomThat “round squat turret,” both unique and commonplace, is akind of grotto peculiarly raised up. Even as “all the lost adventurersmy peers” ring his ordeal, Roland sounds his slug-horn in defiance ofhis fate, and concludes dauntlessly if ambiguously: ‘Childe Roland to theDark Tower Came’. Through him, Browning recalls Shelley’s “trumpetof a prophecy” (from the conclusion to the “Ode to the West Wind”)and thus establishes again his relationship to his prime precursor.
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Page 19 and 20: The American and European Grotesque
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Page 35 and 36: 18William FaulknerCash plugs the ho
Page 37 and 38: 20William FaulknerMost importantly,
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Page 42 and 43: The Bacchae25see what is happening.
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50Miguel de Cervantesblooming Sprin
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52Miguel de Cervanteswill I retract
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54Miguel de Cervanteshimself as in
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56Miguel de CervantesHowever, neith
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58Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe fo
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60Edgar Allan Poeindicate with suff
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62Edgar Allan Poecriminal minister
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88Jonathan SwiftA critic who seeks
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90Jonathan Swiftthe impunity of cer
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92Jonathan Swiftballads against him
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94Jonathan Swiftmankind: it is you
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96Jonathan Swift25. Ibid. iii. 277.
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98William Shakespearewider slice of
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100William ShakespeareAs suggested
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102William ShakespeareBy those Wels
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104William ShakespeareHotspur. Harr
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106William ShakespeareAnd, as epigr
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116William Shakespeareand the ridic
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118William Shakespeareit were, inco
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120William Shakespeareabsurdity of
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122William ShakespeareBut there is
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124William Shakespearein’. Again
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126William Shakespeareeyes is a thi
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128William ShakespeareGloucester ha
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130William ShakespeareGloucester: t
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132William Shakespeareto the poet
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The Metamorphosis137are undercut an
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148Nathanael Westbirth take place
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152Nathanael Westas his attendants.
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176Nikolai GogolChizhevsky, Dmitry.
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178Flannery O’ConnorThe moral vis
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180Flannery O’Connoradvantage of
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182Flannery O’Connorsin, incredib
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186Flannery O’ConnorObsessed with
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200Sherwood Andersonbrushings at ni
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202Sherwood Andersonfrom the basic
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, Acknowledgments .Firth, C. H. The
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, Index .Aabnormality, 189absurd, 3
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Index 213Eeconomics, 161-162Edgar (
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Index 215in Metamorphosis, 136, 137
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Index 217realism, 196reflexivity, 1
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