The Long Apprenticeship : Alienation in the Early Work of Alan Sillitoe

Name: The Long Apprenticeship
Brand: Verlag Peter Lang
SKU: 9783906764504
Price: 10000 KES
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ISBN: 9783906764504

by John Sawkins

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 3906764508

ISBN-13 9783906764504

Publisher Verlag Peter Lang

Imprint Verlag Peter Lang

Country of Manufacture CH

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Apr 19th, 2001

Print length 297 Pages

Weight 416 grams

Dimensions 15.10 x 22.50 x 1.60 cms

Product Classification: Literary studies: from c 1900 -ELT background & reference material Sociology: customs & traditions

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This study of Alan Sillitoe’s early work focuses in particular on Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958) and The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (1959). John Sawkins sees their heroes Arthur Seaton and Colin Smith in their resistance to a conformist society as embodying the concept of Alienation (Estrangement). As such they are representatives of a tradition that goes back in its original metaphysical sense to Langland, Milton, Bunyan and the Bible and in its social and economic senses to Karl Marx, John Ruskin, William Blake und Albert Camus. Sawkins also suggests that Sillitoe’s characters have perhaps acquired the dignity of standard-bearers. What rights do they uphold, what wrongs do they sustain? Or are they merely trouble-makers in an otherwise orderly society?

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