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...description at first seems extraneous,trying the patience, it is soon apparent that ifKavanagh resembles Joyce in the priority of style,his own style itself is most reminiscent of19th-century writers like Melville and Hawthorne.Kavanagh's description of the land not onlyinjects the reader with a detailed feel for theNorth Atlantic, it also operates on a moresymbolic basis as a signifier of meaning.Extrapolating in a literary sense the Celticsuperstition of his outbound parish, the mostbanal aspects of the material world take on aspiritual meaning in this work...

Author: By Carla A. Blackmar, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Responding to the Call of the Great Blue | 5/15/1998 | See Source »

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