E.M. Forster
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Adapting E. M. Forster to the Page, the Stage, and the Screen PowerPoint presentation for the course based on the paper Fordoński, Krzysztof. 2020. “Inspiration, Influence, Dialogue. E. M. Forster and His Oeuvre in Contemporary Culture”,... more
This is a short piece of literary criticism on the use of 'narrative absence' to discuss trauma and consciousness in the work of Virginia Woolf. Although a brief summary is given, familiarity with Woolf's novel, To the Lighthouse... more
The present paper aims at a presentation of the issue of religion in 'Maurice' – both in the text of the novel and in its readings. The text below is the original version presented at the conference dedicated to 'Maurice:, the final... more
"The volume intended to commemorate the 40th anniversary of E. M. Forster's death. It consists of ten papers by various authors which deal with various aspects of Forster's oeuvre, creating a new overview of his works from his novels,... more
Often criticised for its escapist ending, Maurice is surprisingly radical if viewed in the tradition of nineteenth-century political writings. The Chartist writers of the 1840s did not have a solution for the Condition of England question... more
The article presents a detailed analysis of the variety of uses of water symbolism in E. M. Forster's novel 'A Room with a View' Bela, Teresa and Zbigniew Mazur eds. Tradition and Postmodernity. English and American Studies and the... more
The article aims at charting the position of Edward Morgan Forster and his works in contemporary English language culture. It presents various forms of adaptations of or responses to the works of Forster, concentrating on those which have... more
Abstract The Machine Stops is a science fiction story that reflects the idea of dystopian fantasy because of the catastrophy of technology, society and nature in the underground state. The relationship between Vashti and Kuno is one of... more
“If I Had to Choose” – E. M. Forster and the Idea of Friendship” in: Kusek, Robert and Ewa Kowal (eds.), Politics and Poetics of Friendship, Kraków: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, 2017, pp. 113-126. E. M. Forster famously... more
Colonialism is a system of rules which assumes the right of one people to impose their will to another. European powers colonized third world countries such as Rome,
Forster's style with reference to his novels.
In contrast to being ‘fairly straightforward’ treatments of ‘repressed homosexuality’, many of Forster’s posthumous short stories respond to inhibited sexuality in highly self-conscious ways that inflect their very form. ‘The Other Boat’... more
Many hold that colonialism was generally accepted until the 1940s. But Mark Twain announced as early as 1900 that he opposed colonization, and in a 1909 lecture, E.M. Forster clearly formulated an intelligent critique of colonialism and... more
Analysis of the novel written by E. M. Forster's "A Passage to India" and published in 1924.
E. M. Forster’s interest in emotions as well as in various ways of expressing and suppressing them was expressed in a variety ways. His essays on the matter such as “Notes on the English Character” in which he presents the idea of “the... more
The revolution of Imam Hussain (pbuh) has reached all corners of the world because Imam Hussain sacrificed himself, his family members, his supporters and companions, in the Battle of Karbala to stand for all what is noble, sublime, and... more
Bibliography of Critical Studies in the works of E. M. Forster - published in the Polish Journal of English Studies 7.2/2021 - covering the period 1975-2021
This paper focuses on the concept of techno-fundamentalism which side sidesteps politics in favor of taking on social problems and translating them into technical solutions. The article provides an analysis of the opportunities and... more
Although E.M. Forster’s concern with the imaginative and emotional aspects of place is well-known, the specifics of what he meant by place and the way it changed throughout his seventy-year writing career are not. This study proposes a... more
"Cybercultural Ecologies examines the interpenetrating relationships between nature, virtuality, and narrative. Operating at the interface between ecocriticism and cyberculture, its approach is narrative-based and thematic, focusing on... more
The article offers a detailed examination of the way the screenplay writer and director of the movie 'A Room with a View" dealt with the symbolic patterns present in the original novel by E. M. Forster.
The article retraces the locations of E. M. Forster's novels (Italy, England, India) and seeks to establish their role in the context of conventional geography of homosexual desire at the turn of the 19th and the 20th century. Published... more
Law-and-literature scholars have paid scant attention to E. M. Forster’s oeuvre, which abounds in legal information and which situates itself in a unique jurisprudential context. Of all his novels, A Passage to India (1924) interrogates... more
Howards End presents a world in flux and mobility in the advent of modernism where art and literature are tested for their ability to save the individual in the context of a quest for an English house, Howards End, which on a symbolic... more
Almost all readings of E.M. Forster’s Howards End note the famous epigraph – “Only connect…” – but it is not at all obvious how we are supposed to understand it. Connect what, exactly? Here, I propose a new interpretation: that to connect... more
Investigation of the Colonial Identities: A Postcolonial Reading of E.M. Forster, Uzma Asmat, Mazhar Hayat and Khamsa Qasim ABSTRACT The research attempts to navigate the dominant ideologies, the mechanism of their construction and 'the... more
C'est deux ans après la publication de son ultime roman, Route des Indes, qui est aussi son chef-d'œuvre, que E. M. Forster donna au Trinity College de Cambridge la série de conférences dont Aspects du roman reproduit la quintessence. Pas... more
This essay provides an example of Forster’s contemporary literary legacy beyond explicit re-workings of his texts and life. Building on existing scholarship, it adopts the concepts of spectral legacy and dialogue as a framework for... more
The publication of E.M. Forster’s Commonplace Book in 1978 allowed researchers access, for the first time, into the mind of one of the 20th Century’s most important novelists. For a writer whose work, “more completely than for most... more
After writing "The Literary Modernist Assault on Philosophy," I decided to focus on Virginia Woolf's critique of philosophy. At first, Woolf, like most Bloomsbury writers, was both moved and influenced by the philosophy of G.E. Moore.... more
"Sztuka na miarę..." to szczegółowa analiza sztuki i rzeczywistości tak, jak jawi się ona w oglądzie postaci, a także konfrontacja perspektywy postaci z perspektywą narratora oraz ujawnianą pośrednio perspektywą autora implikowanego w... more
E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India presents Brahman Hindu jurisprudence as an alternative to British rule of law, a utilitarian jurisprudence that hinges on mercantilism, central planning, and imperialism. Building on John Hasnas’s... more
Literary reasons for why J.R.R. Tolkien might have co-nominated (alongside Lord David Cecil and F. P. Wilson) the British author E. M. Forster for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Also, a discussion about whether the triple nomination for... more