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THE PRISON: A COMPOSITE NOVEL

Michael Jarvie

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Description:Taking its inspiration from James Joyce’s notion of the ‘epiphany’, this composite novel, spanning the childhood, adolescence and manhood of an unnamed narrator, focuses on the theme of imprisonment.Six of the fourteen stories in The Prison are set in Birmingham, where the working-class protagonist finds himself struggling to cope with the harsh and alienating environment of inner city life.The narrator’s symbolic imprisonment embraces such universal themes as the ‘mind-forged manacles’ of religion, the demoralising effects of poverty, the constricting influence of the sex drive, the transitory nature of love and the drudgery of a worker trapped inside the ‘carceral machine’.Despite being a thoroughly transgressive work, The Prison is simultaneously cohesive and artfully structured, in the manner of Joyce’s Dubliners .We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with THE PRISON: A COMPOSITE NOVEL. To get started finding THE PRISON: A COMPOSITE NOVEL, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Taking its inspiration from James Joyce’s notion of the ‘epiphany’, this composite novel, spanning the childhood, adolescence and manhood of an unnamed narrator, focuses on the theme of imprisonment.Six of the fourteen stories in The Prison are set in Birmingham, where the working-class protagonist finds himself struggling to cope with the harsh and alienating environment of inner city life.The narrator’s symbolic imprisonment embraces such universal themes as the ‘mind-forged manacles’ of religion, the demoralising effects of poverty, the constricting influence of the sex drive, the transitory nature of love and the drudgery of a worker trapped inside the ‘carceral machine’.Despite being a thoroughly transgressive work, The Prison is simultaneously cohesive and artfully structured, in the manner of Joyce’s Dubliners .We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with THE PRISON: A COMPOSITE NOVEL. To get started finding THE PRISON: A COMPOSITE NOVEL, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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