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Golding, Sir William (Gerald) - 1911–93, English novelist. Praised for his highly imaginative and original writings, Golding was basically concerned with the eternal nature of man. In his best-known work, the allegorical Lord of the Flies (1954), he described the nightmarish adventures of a group of English schoolboys stranded on an island and traced their degeneration from a state of


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    Understanding Lord of the Flies: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents » Read Now

    by Kirstin Olsen, Claudia Durst Johnson. 220 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    A seemingly simple tale of schoolboys marooned on an island, Lord of the Flies has proven to be one of the most enigmatic and provocative pieces of literature ever published. This casebook probes the many layers of meaning in the novel, examining its literary, philosophical, historical, scientific...
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    Politics and History in William Golding: The World Turned Upside Down » Read Now

    by Paul Crawford. 261 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    Politics and History in William Golding provides a much needed politicized and historicized reading of William Golding's novels as a counter to previous, universalizing criticism. Paul Crawford argues that an understanding of fantastic and carnivalesque modes in Golding's work is vital if we are to...
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    No Place Else: Explorations in Utopian and Dystopian Fiction (Chap. 12 "On Aggression: William Golding's Lord of the Flies") » Read Now

    by Eric S. Rabkin, Martin H. Greenberg, Joseph D. Olander. 280 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...Contradictions in Bradburys Vision of America in Fahrenheit 451 Jack Zipes 182 12. On Aggression: William Goldings Lord of the Flies Kathleen Woodward 199 13. Robert...
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    Classic Cult Fiction: A Companion to Popular Cult Literature ("Lord of the Flies" begins on p. 140) » Read Now

    by Thomas Reed Whissen. 324 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    Classic Cult Fiction is a history, analysis, and reference guide to books that have become "bibles" to generations of Europeans and Americans over the past 200 years--books like The Catcher in the Rye. Fearlessly taking on "canon formation," Whissen identifies the top 50 classic cult books, first...
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    Dystopian Literature: A Theory and Research Guide ("William Golding: Lord of the Flies" begins on p. 161) » Read Now

    by M. Keith Booker. 412 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    Dystopian literature is a potent vehicle for criticizing existing social conditions or political systems, and for warning against the potential negative consequences of utopian thought. This reference is a guide to dystopian theory and literature. It discusses the work of key theorists and...
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    Contemporary British Novelists ("The Elements of William Golding" begins on p. 36) » Read Now

    by Charles Shapiro. 172 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...some new insights into the work of William Golding, particularly in his discussions of "faulty vision." It is not the novels which in his judgment have...continually...
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    Puzzles and Epiphanies: Essays and Reviews, 1958-1961 (Chap. 22 "William Golding") » Read Now

    by Frank Kermode. 234 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...artist-shamans; the division of labour is an old one, palaeolithic at least. Mr. Golding caught it exactly in the Jack and Simon of Lord of the Flies . Perhaps the need is...
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    The Fluctuations of William Golding's Critical Reputation, in Contemporary Review » Read Now

    by Jonathan W. Doering. 6 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    ...dwindling list, William Golding emerged. I had read his Lord of the Flies twice in...and asked Golding to make changes. The resulting novel, Lord of the Flies, was...
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    Golding and Huxley: The Fables of Demonic Possession, in Twentieth Century Literature » Read Now

    by James R. Baker. 17 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...heard enough about William Goldings Lord of the Flies. Published in...Go: A Study of William Goldings Lord of the Flies. Arizona Quarterly...Introduction. Lord of the...
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    Piggy and the Eternal City: Science Fiction as Testing Ground/Or New Management Theory, in Emergence » Read Now

    by John F. Keane. 23 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    ...management: William Golding Lord of the Flies --The dissipative...FLUCTUATIONS William Goldings famous novel Lord of the Flies describes group...Faber and Faber. Golding...
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    A Matter of Belief: Pincher Martin's Afterlife, in Twentieth Century Literature » Read Now

    by Leon Surette. 21 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...Surette When William Goldings Pincher Martin...narrative along the lines of Lord of the Flies and The Inheritors...belief; Simon in Lord of the Flies is another...would...
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    The Artful Equivocation of William Golding's The Double Tongue, in Twentieth Century Literature » Read Now

    by J.H. Stape. 17 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...Creativity" (195) William Goldings last novel, The Double Tongue...in the summer of 1993. Its publishers...had "meant" in Lord of the Flies. Brute circumstance...Haffenden...
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    The English Novel in the Twentieth Century: 7 the Numinous in Modern British Fiction, in Contemporary Review (discusses Golding) » Read Now

    by Chris Arthur. 5 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...of the landscape in which their story unfolds. William Golding, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1983, is probably best known for his novel Lord of The Flies...

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