The Japanese Quince | Essays and Criticism

  • The Blackbird's Song

    Kippen is an educator and specialist on British colonial literature and twentieth-century South African fiction. In the following essay, he examines the many symmetrical reflections in Galsworthy's story and argues that they, together, create a larger rhetorical mirror directed outward at the reader.

  • The Blackbird in, John Galsworthy's The Japanese Quince

    Lanier is an educator at Georgia Southern University. In the following essay, she discusses the blackbird of Galsworthy's story as a symbol of' 'the call to spontaneity," a concept that is difficult for Mr. Nilson to accept.

  • Galsworthy's, Japanese Quince

    Cervo is an educator at Franklin Pierce College, in Rindge, New Hampshire. In the following essay, he delineates the similarities between Galsworthy's '"The Japanese Quince'' and the works of Sir Thomas' 1716 book Christian Morals.