"I Saw a Kingfisher": Grace and Ruin in Golding's The Spire
William Golding, in The Spire, invites us to ask how we may know the will of God, and suggests that what we take to be the will of God is often simply the projection onto history of the disguised image of our private and self-absorbed desires. Though contemporary critics tend to interpret the novel...
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1993
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Horizons
Year: 1993, Volume: 20, Issue: 1, Pages: 44-66 |
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