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 of gusty winds to scatter the records of one’s existence (footprints in snow and the secret location a silver mine). …
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 Conroy. One of these techniques is affective reading, which has been undervalued in critical analysis since the rise of New …
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 Gabriel Conroy’s title character, Jack Hamlin, and to a lesser degree, Arthur Poinsett. Moreover, the nefarious attribution of Gabriel Conroy …
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, as Henry Childs Merwin does, the novel he believes remains such a nuisance “…that there are times when the reader …