Allan Chavkin
Biographic Data
| ID | 8513184 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Allan Chavkin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Allan |
| FAMILY NAME | Chavkin |
| SIGNATURE | CHAVKIN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Schlumberger (Ireland) |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Question of Suicide or Survival in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and the “Mother” Episode of The Grail Draft
In a review of the book Styles of Extinction: Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, Maria O’Connell observes that the essays in the volume treat the text “as something akin to a true apocalypse writing, or a
The Boy’s Belief in “a God of the Sun” in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road
The Road portrays one of the bleakest landscapes in post-apocalyptic fiction. An unidentified catastrophe has destroyed most life on the planet. In this wasteland, a father and young son travel sou
Theodore Roethke’s “The Exorcism”
In 1966 Karl Malkoff noted that Theodore Roethke’s “The Exorcism” was one of his finest poems of the 1954–58 period of his career, yet critics had neglected it (145). Malkoff’s observation still is
Leslie Marmon Silko‘s Ceremony
Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony, the most important novel of the Native American Renaissance, is among the most most widely taught and studied novels in higher education today. In it, Silko recounts a young man's search for consolation in his tribe's history and traditions, and his resulting voyage of self-discovery and discovery of the world. The fourteen essays in this casebook include a variety of theoretical approaches and provide the reader w…
Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony
Wordsworth’s “Ode” and Bellow’s Seize the Day
NotesSee, for example, Bellow’s quotations from stanza V of the “Ode” in Henderson the Rain King (339) and Humboldt’s Gift (443). John J. Clayton convincingly argues that the “Ode” “must have been very much in Bellow’s mind as he wrote Humboldt’s Gift” (279), while Jeff Campbell and Daniel Majdiak show the important influence of Wordsworth’s poem on Henderson. In both novels. Bellow reveals how his protagonists can achieve a “soul” according to t…
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Wordsworth’s “Ode” and Bellow’s Seize the Day
NotesSee, for example, Bellow’s quotations from stanza V of the “Ode” in Henderson the Rain King (339) and Humboldt’s Gift (443). John J. Clayton convincingly argues that the “Ode” “must have been very much in Bellow’s mind as he wrote Humboldt’s Gift” (279), while Jeff Campbell and Daniel Majdiak show the important influence of Wordsworth’s poem on Henderson. In both novels. Bellow reveals how his protagonists can achieve a “soul” according to t…
Leslie Marmon Silko‘s Ceremony
Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony, the most important novel of the Native American Renaissance, is among the most most widely taught and studied novels in higher education today. In it, Silko recounts a young man's search for consolation in his tribe's history and traditions, and his resulting voyage of self-discovery and discovery of the world. The fourteen essays in this casebook include a variety of theoretical approaches and provide the reader w…
Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony
Theodore Roethke’s “The Exorcism”
In 1966 Karl Malkoff noted that Theodore Roethke’s “The Exorcism” was one of his finest poems of the 1954–58 period of his career, yet critics had neglected it (145). Malkoff’s observation still is
The Question of Suicide or Survival in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and the “Mother” Episode of The Grail Draft
In a review of the book Styles of Extinction: Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, Maria O’Connell observes that the essays in the volume treat the text “as something akin to a true apocalypse writing, or a
The Boy’s Belief in “a God of the Sun” in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road
The Road portrays one of the bleakest landscapes in post-apocalyptic fiction. An unidentified catastrophe has destroyed most life on the planet. In this wasteland, a father and young son travel sou
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