They constitute the best-known grouping within the richly diverse range of Icelandic Sagas (see the separate essay Icelandic Sagas in The Literary Encyclopedia). ... His mother invited him to stay there, though she said she could see that it would not help him much, since he was a wanted man throughout the land. ...
After a few years in Canada, he started writing stories and gained immediate attention, receiving two Hart House literary prizes and Canadian Fiction Magazine's annual Contributors' Prize in 1985. ... It is not the history or the actuality that attracts in Mistry's fiction, but the way he uses these elements. ... Even though Mistry seldom goes back to India literally these days, he does persist in taking literary journeys. ...
After a few years in Canada, he started writing stories and gained immediate attention, receiving two Hart House literary prizes and Canadian Fiction Magazine's annual Contributors' Prize in 1985. ... It is not the history or the actuality that attracts in Mistry's fiction, but the way he uses these elements. ... Even though Mistry seldom goes back to India literally these days, he does persist in taking literary journeys. ...
." - Ralph Waldo Emerson A Condensation of Its Context Toward the end of his notebook, "Naturalist," Ralph Waldo Emerson entered sentence (dated 1853) that marks a symbolic vision of nature familiar to his readers and, in more recent years, of concern to his ecologically minded critics: "He is the richest who has most use for nature as raw material of tropes and symbols with which to describe his life." (2) One can see why the tradition of reading Emerson's nature writing and environmental aesthetics in sharp contrast with Henry David Thoreau's--Thoreau viewed as "Emerson's ea...
