Group 2012 January

Grantville archive for January, 2012

THE COHERENT PLOT OF GABRIEL CONROY (II)

Here in Harte’s prologue, relating to the rest of the novel, nature provides not only a rescue but a doom ...

THE COHERENT PLOT OF GABRIEL CONROY (I)

This portion of the thesis discusses the skills and techniques Bret Harte uses to create a strong plot in Gabriel ...

THE CRITICAL RECEPTION OF GABRIEL CONROY (V)

One contemplates with wonder what the anonymous reviewer of the Saturday Review considers “ruffianly” about the fundamentally sympathetic qualities of ...

THE CRITICAL RECEPTION OF GABRIEL CONROY (IV)

Moreover, later biographers have almost all dismissed Gabriel Conroy as an abject failure. Even when generally praising Harte, the writer, ...