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• catalog abstract "The greatness of E.M. Forster's fifth and last novel, A Passage to India, rests in part on its agility. It is at once political tract, personal memoir, philosophical meditation, comedy of manners, mystery, even ghost story. It accommodates the workings of reason and the supernatural, the sensibilities of West and East, the experiences of conqueror and subject. It is a colonial as well as a postcolonial text, a participant in both the realist and modernist traditions. In her ample, well-furnished response to Forster's masterpiece, Judith Scherer Herz combines a political and historical reading with one focusing on narrative technique. This unusual approach allows for a rich accounting of the multitude of forces at work in the novel, enabling her to determine as precisely as possible the events, beliefs, values, and cultural assumptions that inform it. The reasons for the British presence in India, the extent of their power over the Indians, the many and complex reactions of the Indians to that power, the role and reliability of Forster's narrator as arbiter and truthteller, the extent to which that narrator gives voice to Forster's personal experience of India - all are brought to light in Herz's analysis. This assessment of the book's more tangible elements is complemented by Herz's recognition of its intangible elements, its ghosts, those presences that exist within its imaginative world but not necessarily on the page. The novel's "ghost story," Herz writes, "occurs in the spaces of the primary text; in dreams, memories, old photographs, and flashes of intuition that do not quite resolve." While some critics have dealt with the supernatural in Forster's work, Herz is the first to use the idea of the ghost story to come to grips with the essential elusiveness and secrecy of A Passage to India. Herz's willingness to explore the least chartered, least expressible territory of the novel, coupled with her informed criticism of the primary text, sets her work apart from other Forster studies to date.".
• catalog contributor b4258532.
• catalog coverage "India In literature.".
• catalog created "c1993.".
• catalog date "1993".
• catalog date "c1993.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1993.".
• catalog description "Chronology: E.M. Forster's Life and Works -- Literary and Historical Context. 1. A Modernist Novel? 2. The British Raj and the Writing of A Passage to India. 3. "Expansion ... Not Completion" 4. Critical Reception -- A Reading. 5. World and Text. 6. Beginnings. 7. Narration and Language. 8. Caves. 9. Trials. 10. Endings. 11. Epilogue: Ghosts and Memory.".
• catalog description "Herz's willingness to explore the least chartered, least expressible territory of the novel, coupled with her informed criticism of the primary text, sets her work apart from other Forster studies to date.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog description "The greatness of E.M. Forster's fifth and last novel, A Passage to India, rests in part on its agility. It is at once political tract, personal memoir, philosophical meditation, comedy of manners, mystery, even ghost story. It accommodates the workings of reason and the supernatural, the sensibilities of West and East, the experiences of conqueror and subject. It is a colonial as well as a postcolonial text, a participant in both the realist and modernist traditions. In her ample, well-furnished response to Forster's masterpiece, Judith Scherer Herz combines a political and historical reading with one focusing on narrative technique. This unusual approach allows for a rich accounting of the multitude of forces at work in the novel, enabling her to determine as precisely as possible the events, beliefs, values, and cultural assumptions that inform it. ".
• catalog description "The reasons for the British presence in India, the extent of their power over the Indians, the many and complex reactions of the Indians to that power, the role and reliability of Forster's narrator as arbiter and truthteller, the extent to which that narrator gives voice to Forster's personal experience of India - all are brought to light in Herz's analysis. This assessment of the book's more tangible elements is complemented by Herz's recognition of its intangible elements, its ghosts, those presences that exist within its imaginative world but not necessarily on the page. The novel's "ghost story," Herz writes, "occurs in the spaces of the primary text; in dreams, memories, old photographs, and flashes of intuition that do not quite resolve." While some critics have dealt with the supernatural in Forster's work, Herz is the first to use the idea of the ghost story to come to grips with the essential elusiveness and secrecy of A Passage to India. ".
• catalog extent "xvii, 151 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Passage to India.".
• catalog identifier "0805780564".
• catalog identifier "0805781048 (pbk.)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Passage to India.".
• catalog isPartOf "Twayne's masterwork studies ; no. 117".
• catalog issued "1993".
• catalog issued "c1993.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : Twayne Publishers ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International,".
• catalog relation "Passage to India.".
• catalog spatial "India In literature.".
• catalog subject "823/.912 20".
• catalog subject "Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970. Passage to India.".
• catalog subject "PR6011.O58 P3744 1992".
• catalog tableOfContents "Chronology: E.M. Forster's Life and Works -- Literary and Historical Context. 1. A Modernist Novel? 2. The British Raj and the Writing of A Passage to India. 3. "Expansion ... Not Completion" 4. Critical Reception -- A Reading. 5. World and Text. 6. Beginnings. 7. Narration and Language. 8. Caves. 9. Trials. 10. Endings. 11. Epilogue: Ghosts and Memory.".
• catalog title "A passage to India : nation and narration / Judith Scherer Herz.".
• catalog type "text".