The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame - Peter Hunt (essay date 1994)
Peter Hunt (essay date 1994)
SOURCE: Hunt, Peter. “Main Streams and Backwaters: Narrative and Structure.” In The Wind in the Willows: A Fragmented Arcadia, pp. 25-47. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1994.
[In the following essay, Hunt analyzes the narrative structure of The Wind in the Willows, contending that “we cannot separate structure from symbol, symbol from character, or character from language.”]
The Mole was bewitched, entranced, fascinated. By the side of the river he trotted as one trots, when very small, by the side of a man who holds one spellbound by exciting stories; and when tired at last, he sat on the bank, while the river still chattered on to him, a babbling procession of the best stories in the world. …
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THE SHAPES OF THE NARRATIVE
[T]he trees were thicker and more like each other than ever. There seemed to be no end to this wood, and no...
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