Authors: 265
Books: 3,034
Poems & Short Stories: 3,123
Forum Members: 68,569
Forum Posts: 995,314

From: The Nation
Date: 19870509
Author:Said, Edward W.
The Vienna Philharmonic: The Complete Beethoven Symphonies And Concertos
Toward the end of E.M. Forster'sA Passage to India, as the spiritually exhausted Fielding is sailing home, he comes through the Suez Canal into the Mediterranean, "the human norm." The relief he feels derives from that region, where "harmony between the works of man and the earth that upholds them" has been achieved. It is an insidious comparison that Forster intends between India, all muddles and unsatisfying mysteries, and Europe, a "civilization that has escaped muddle, the spirit in a reasonable ...
Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.
About Our Articles: We've partnered with Highbeam Research to provide these article excerpts for your research needs. However, due to copyright laws, we cannot publish the whole article. To view these articles in full length you'll need to use the link above to access the free trial at Highbeam.
| Art of Worldly Wisdom Daily In the 1600s, Balthasar Gracian, a jesuit priest wrote 300 aphorisms on living life called "The Art of Worldly Wisdom." Join our newsletter below and read them all, one at a time. |
Sonnet-a-Day Newsletter Shakespeare wrote over 150 sonnets! Join our Sonnet-A-Day Newsletter and read them all, one at a time. |