Fate and Freedom in the Novels of David Adams Richards

Fate and Freedom in the Novels of David Adams Richards
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Publisher : Lexington Books
Total Pages : 175
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ISBN-10 : 9781498528719
ISBN-13 : 1498528716
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Book Synopsis Fate and Freedom in the Novels of David Adams Richards by : Sara MacDonald

Download or read book Fate and Freedom in the Novels of David Adams Richards written by Sara MacDonald and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-05-04 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the understanding of freedom developed in the later novels of celebrated Canadian author, David Adams Richards. Many reviewers highlight two interconnected features in Richards novels: a seemingly rigid determinism of setting and sociodemographics, and a resulting hopelessness. In contrast, Richards describes the quest of human life and the purpose of his novels as a search for freedom. This book explores the account of freedom that is developed through the course of four of Richards’s works: The Friends of Meager Fortune, Mercy Among the Children, The Lost Highway, and Crimes Against My Brother. Following the Augustinian thread that informs Richards’s writing, we argue that rather than presenting an understanding of human life that is bleak or hopeless, Richards instead reveals an argument wherein one’s happiness and freedom is found in the midst of love.


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