Neglected patterns in a highland beauty, the aesthetic conditions of

• Main Author: Lok, Joshua Cheng Huai
• Other Authors: Cornelius Anthony Murphy
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::English
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/65599
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Inexorable are the tides of the sea, inescapable the thrust of time, and inimitable the touches of beauty: together, these elements make Neil M. Gunn’s The Silver Darlings (1941) gleam “with a movement of colour and life like the lines in a tartan” (160). Yet, the historical brutalities that drove t...