Word: crowley
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...reaction was a growing sense of dread and horror that this was being done in my name,” said Megan Crowley ’05, who attended the Kirkland House discussion...
...Crowley excuses the mediocrity of Kit’s poems by making them the product of a high-school student, and of Falin’s by presenting them only in translations—which are, we understand, far inferior to the rhymed, rhythmic originals. But if the reader is to share the semi-religious experiences of Kit and Falin, the poetry in question must be more than mere scaffolding to advance the author’s themes...
When one wonders what the novel’s overriding purpose is, it is difficult not to think of the present war in Afghanistan. Is this a national epic, designed to express our spirit, stand for us and speak for us? Or is it only meant to speak for Crowley, as a kind of spiritual autobiography, somehow chronicling his own awakening to the power of poetry and love...
...Crowley graduated from Indiana University in 1964, placing him right beside Kit during the main intrigue. Now, Crowley is a teacher of fiction writing at Yale, a documentary writer and a longtime novelist. Often called a writer’s writer, he is no longer writing science fiction and fantasy books; the novelist whose career has included such surreal masterworks as Little, Big and the Aegypt tetralogy (in progress) here absorbs the historical interest of the documentary writer. Mainly due to vagueness of its historical theories and its reliance on cultural archetypes in lieu of deep characterization, his book gives...
...John Crowley...