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Comparative Cultural Studies 4
Aspects of Literature and Perspectives of CultureChair: Peter Petro (The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada)
Communication, Literature, and Death: Harraden and MacLennan
Jakabfi, Anna (Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary)
Anna Jakabfi discusses in her paper, "Communication, Literature, and Death: Harraden and MacLennan," aspects of Beatrice Harraden's Ships that Pass in the Night and Hugh MacLennan's The Watch that Ends the Night. Jakabfi analyses the two texts with attention to how men and women react to death they are going to face in the foreseeable future. Jakabfi argues that the principal women protagonists of the novels appear to confirm Jung's notions about women and their preference to live in spaces with much light. The men in the novels, respectively, tend to philosophize and thus reconcile to the inevitable facing their beloved. The British Harraden's novel is centered around a dozen or so protagonists at a small resort place in Switzerland during a short period of time while Canadian Maclennan's novel spans several continents and several decades. Another aspect of the texts Jakabfi discusses is the matter of fighting for a cause: Harraden was a well-known suffragette and Hugh MacLennan an nationalist for English Canada.
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