Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Portnoy recalls her with emotions that are swollen with love and loathing. He remembers her seductive tones during his toilet training and ponders the absurdity that such a memory could help mold his character. He relates the telephone conversation he had with her after returning from his European vacation: "Well...
What elevates the character of Alexander Portnoy far above the usual black-comedy victim is his insistence on knowing why he is in such pain, and his willingness and ability to examine every inflamed nerve ending. Portnoy's upbringing is not exclusively Jewish; it was a characteristic carryover from...
In spite of Michener's long-windedness, no single book since V. S. Pritchett's The Spanish Temper and Gerald Brenan's The Face of Spain has succeeded so well in embracing the country's history and culture, its natural and architectural milieu, and the quality...
If Dylan is living some sort of stream of consciousness, it's in a certain meaning of the phrase. One kind of stream of consciousness (represented in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse) is a highly sensitive awareness limited to what is actually happening around the character and the immediate...
The new album represents a stylistic change in his expression. Dylan's earlier efforts to find truth as an object is replaced by songs that try to identify a truthful process. This change in what Dylan is doing I think explains why John Wesley Harding is the title song. The...