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Kipling's "Mary Postgate" reconsidered: an example of critical obtuseness. (Literature).(Rudyard Kipling's short story reconsidered)
THE SHORT STORY "Mary Postgate", written by Rudyard Kipling early in 1915, before his own son was killed in the First World War, has been subject to the most extraordinary amount of fundamental misinterpretation. Few short stories can have been so often explained by specialist authors and learned critics as meaning the exact opposite of what their meaning actually is. Kipling seems to have played a successful psychological trick on his educated readers while proving precisely the story's point.
"Mary Postgate" is generally summarised as follows: the central character, Mary Postgate, is an unattractive, ageing, sexually deprived spinster. She adores a young man ...
- Rudyard Kipling : HEROES & VILLANS
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London Michael Berkeley February 11, 1996 700+ words
...century, when the five-year-old Rudyard Kipling and his sister Trish arrived there...exhilarates; in that appalling short story Mary Postgate, I see a writer of genius wrestling...the garden and begs for a doctor. Mary Postgate watches with disgust and a growing...
- Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book
- Newspaper article from: La Prensa de San Antonio Albert Pena December 30, 1994 700+ words
...Prensa de San Antonio 12-30-1994 Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book. En la clsica...junglas de la India, en la pelcula "Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book". Una historia...Walt Disney Pictures presenta "Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book", dirigida por...
- The Outsider - A profile of the restless wanderer, Rudyard Kipling.
- Magazine article from: World and I STANLEY, SCOTT August 1, 2000 700+ words
...readers with history was to Joseph Rudyard Kipling--whose thirty or so volumes of...word that there was a new biography, Rudyard Kipling: A Life, by New Zealand poet Harry...to be added to Lord Birkenhead's Rudyard Kipling, Charles Carrington's Rudyard Kipling...
- Rudyard Kipling
- Picture from: Archive Photos January 1, 1996 700+ words
Archive Photos 01-01-1996 Rudyard Kipling Always popular British author Rudyard Kipling, pictured in his later years, seated...glasses. Always popular British author Rudyard Kipling, pictured in his later years, seated...
- Rudyard Kipling & the god of things as they are.
- Magazine article from: New Criterion Derbyshire, John March 1, 2000 700+ words
...son, four years old, and wonder. Rudyard Kipling's son, John, was born in 1897...of that claim, the short life of Rudyard Kipling's only son, and the progress of...to save us and our son." Nor was Rudyard Kipling any armchair militarist, nor the...
- Constructing the Englishman in Rudyard Kipling's Letters of Marque.(Critical...
- Magazine article from: Yearbook of English Studies Conde, Mary January 1, 2004 700+ words
ABSTRACT Rudyard Kipling's Letters of Marque, subsequently...of empire. ********** Rudyard Kipling's Letters of Marque, subsequently...opposite, saying: 'That is Rudyard Kipling, who has just come from Lahore...
- A white man's burden: Rudyard Kipling's pathos and prescience.('The Long...
- Magazine article from: Harper's Magazine Wheatcroft, Geoffrey September 1, 2002 700+ words
...this essay: The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling, by David Gilmour. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002...distinct writers were born at far ends of the British Empire: Rudyard Kipling in Bombay and W. B. Yeats in Dublin. Both became internationally...
- PARROT JUNGLE AND GARDENS TO HOST BENEFIT FOR THE EXCLUSIVE SOUTH FLORIDA...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire December 2, 1994 700+ words
...preview of Walt Disney Pictures' "Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book," a new live...attending the Parrot Jungle showing of "Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book" will receive...Walt Disney Pictures presentation, "Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book" is directed...
