Britská literatura
Kennedy, A. L. "The Mouseboks Family Dictionary".
Summary
- an alphabetic list of words with special meaning to the eponymous family
- a mock psychiatrical analysis of the family history conditioning their present state
- the family - a set of lustful,...
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Larkin, Philip. "Church Going".
Summary
- the speaker, apparently a non-believer, enters an empty church
- observes and describes the surroundings, realises the place was not worth stopping for, yet succumbs into a series of meditations...
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Larkin, Philip. "To Failure".
Summary
- the speaker addresses failure in a free and irregular soliloquy
- muses about the way failure comes: the 1st stanza describes how it does not come, the 2nd describes the state after its coming
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Larkin, Philip. "Water".
Summary
- the speaker announces he would construct a religion out of water
- develops his argument in terms of "ford" making, "sousing", and "drenching" which are applicable both to the quality of water and to...
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Lawrence, D. H. "Odour of Chrysanthemums".
Summary
- establishes the rather unpleasant setting in a dirty industrial England landscape
- gradually reveals the character of the protagonist, Elizabeth Bates, and the nature of her marriage to the...
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Lewis, C. S. The Problem of Pain.
"Preface"
- the author humbly states that he writes the book as a mere layman of the Church of England
- the book purports to tackle the intellectual problem of suffering
"Introductory"
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Lochhead, Liz. Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off.
Summary
Act I
- La Corbie's monologue introduces the situation
- Elizabeth refuses her suitors, Mary comments on their qualies how she sees them herself
- Elizabeth becomes Bessie, Mary's maid; Mary then...
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Lodge, David. Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses.
Summary
"1. Flying."
Professor Exchange: The chapter alternately follows two planes moving in the opposite direction from shortly after their take-off to the moment of their landing. It is the 1st of January...
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MacNeice, Louis. "Prayer before Birth".
Summary
- the speaker, a strikingly wise baby "not yet born", addresses mankind in a sadly knowing soliloquy
- expresses his fear of the destructive power of "human race" which may overwhelm and destroy his...
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MacNeice, Louis. "Snow".
Summary
- the speaker broods over the immediacy of experience he felt on sitting in a room when suddenly snow began to fall: the sudden contrast between the snow x the roses at the window sill
- peels and eats...
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MacNeice, Louis. "The Suicide".
Summary
- the speaker conducts his audience in the office of a late clerk
- points out the things he left behind at his working place: bills, letters, memoranda, etc.
- claims this seemingly unimportant man...
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MacNeice, Louis. "The Sunlight on the Garden."
Summary
- the speaker pitifully describes the fading "sunlight on the garden" = the passing time
- announces the end of a chapter in human life = in human history
- addresses his "friend" to inform him that...
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Mansfield, Katherine. "Bliss".
Summary
Bertha Young (30), a fashionable upper-class lady, returns from shopping in high spirits and contemplates her blissful life. The nanny does not want her to feed her little daughter because she might...
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Mansfield, Katherine. "Miss Brill".
Summary
Miss Brill spends Sunday afternoons in a park where she observes people and listens to their conversation. She feels a part of it, like an actress on the stage. One Sunday she takes a fur out of a box,...
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Mansfield, Katherine. "Prelude".
Summary
The Burnells are moving from the town to the country and their individual characters are revealed. Linda Burnell proves to be an ineffective mother: leaves the two youngest daughters, Lottie and...
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