Essays about: "ironweed by william kennedy analysis"

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  1. 1. William Kennedy’s Ironweed : Francis Phelan’s Purgatorial Journey Back Home

    University essay from Estetisk-filosofiska fakulteten

    Author : jonas hedin; [2007]
    Keywords : Ironweed; Divine Comedy; Purgatory; Journey;

    Abstract : In the essay “William Kennedy’s Ironweed: Francis Phelan’s Purgatorial Journey Back Home” I intend to show that William Kennedy has borrowed his narrative structure and symbolic language in the novel Ironweed from The Divine Comedy. I will also try to show how William Kennedy has used these allusions to enhance the imagery of Ironweed and the protagonist Francis Phelan’s wandering through the novel, and his return home. READ MORE