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	Waterland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Waterland is a municipality in the north-western Netherlands, in the province of North Holland.
		It is located north of Amsterdam, on the borders of the IJsselmeer.
		Monnickendam (population as of 2004: 10,089), Broek in Waterland (2,346), Ilpendam (1,918), Marken (1,846), Watergang (422), Zuiderwoude (264), Katwoude (226) and Uitdam (155).
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	Encyclopedia article: Waterland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Waterland is a municipality in the north-western Netherlands (A constitutional monarchy in western Europe on the North Sea; achieved independence from Spain in 1579; half the country lies below sea level), in the province of North Holland (additional info and facts about North Holland).
		Broek in Waterland is located about 8km northeast of Amsterdam (An industrial center and the nominal capital of the Netherlands; center of the diamond-cutting industry; seat of an important stock exchange; known for its canals and art museum).
		Waterland is a novel by Graham Swift (additional info and facts about Graham Swift), made into a 1992 movie (A form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement) starring Jeremy Irons (additional info and facts about Jeremy Irons).
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	Waterland: An Introduction
		The novel and its narrator treats this position sympathetically, because before the murder of Freddie Parr he and Mary lived outside of time and history, outside that stream of events he is trying to teach to his class.
		This whole novel, in fact, is an attempt to explain what went wrong---what went wrong with his own life and Mary's, the lives of his parents and the lives of their families, who represent the peasant and wealthy entrepreneurial classes of modern Britain and its rise.
		Waterland begins, therefore, with the discovery of Freddie Parr's body in midsummer 1937, which comes all the more shockingly, unexpectedly, because Swift presents the discovery within a fairy-tale landscape, for it was "a fairy-tale land, after all" (2), in part because both his mother and father had a gift for such tales.
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	Essay Info :: Why is “history” such a central theme in the novel Waterland
		Waterland charts the history of an individual, or more accurately it charts the history of the individual through particular events and examines how they played a part in shaping who he was to become and the later events of his life.
		Throughout the novel, we have to assume that all of what Crick says is true, that it is not embellished, that it has not been mistakenly forgotten with the passing of time.
		In Waterland, Swift has created a narrative fabric in which it was possible to insert what is almost an essay on the natural history of the eel, but the chapter on the eel has its relevance and purpose within the whole.
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	New Life, Old Love in Charles Dickens Great Expectations
		While for the course of the novel Pip is characterized by extreme selfishness and self-aggrandizement, by the end of the novel he comes to see the errors of his ways and rectifies the wrongs he has done, cleansing himself of the egocentricity that accompanied his fortuitous rise to wealth.
		In a novel the comes to be about Pip's growth and the paths and evolution of relationships, it does not seem accidental that Dickens chose to "rewrite" Pip as a young child, perhaps allowing him another life in which to correct the mistakes of old.
		Unlike in the Victorian novels where domesticity (or its promise) and spouses come to be a comfort and source of joy, Antoinette's husband is the source of her pain rather than a source of comfort: the domestic sphere comes to destroy her rather than enrich her.
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	BookPage Interview
		Both novels incorporate events set in the 19th century and provide detailed historical information in a way that makes the arcane essential and the scholarly poetical.
		To read his novel one would think that Swift had plowed through numerous accounts of the impact of Darwinism and mastered the intricacies of paleontology.
		Swift explains that his novels spring from "rather fragmentary, incidental images." In the case of Ever After, it was the image of a boy watching through a window as ballerinas practice.
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	Graham Swift
		His novels are frequently organised around an underlying mystery, and his oblique and non-linear narrative technique lends itself to a gradual revelation of events in a manner reminiscent at times of the nineteenth century detective novel.
		The novel is essentially a dramatic monologue, the history teacher in the classroom recounting his own life story as well as that of his ancestors.
		The schoolboys of Waterland are addressed directly, if not always aloud, as 'children', and the fact that Crick's tale is full of adult horrors (suicide, murder and abortion) makes the contrast between his narrative mode and the tale he tells all the more unsettling.
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	SALON: Glowing in the ashes
		"Waterland" was followed by "Out of This World" and "Ever After," two ambitious novels that helped cement Swift's reputation as one of his generation's formidable talents.
		This is a novel in which six or seven characters collaboratively tell the story, and I as an authorial presence am somewhere in the background.
		I think there's an awful circularity between media society and novels written within a media society, where novelists feel that they have to reflect what is around them, so they stuff their novels with references to contemporary media and advertising and so forth.
	www.salon.com /weekly/swift960506.html (2550 words)

	Gallileus - Waterland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Waterland is a novel that causes its reader to curiously question the succession of events in a lifetime.
		In Waterland, Tom Crick has recently been forced into early retirement, and he is in the process of completing his final lecture to a class of students.
		One exceptional book Waterland is a book about a history teacher being forced into early retirement, the teacher changes the subject of the French revolution into his own life and the history of the town this story took place in.
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	Essay Info :: Why is “history” such a central theme in the novel Waterland
		Joyce’s seminal novel Ulysses charts the epic narrative of one day in the life of a single man, there history has no beginning or end, but history makes the man. History essentially makes a man who he is by offering him a sense of identity and experiences to relate and learn from.
		In Waterland, Dick is the character who has no perception of past or present, he has no sense of history and consequently he is the most simple and one-sided character, until of course he discovers the importance of history.
		Waterland is more concerned with the history of events, with facts, and with the history of circumstance.
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	Consider Swift's presentation of two of the characters in 'Waterland' who you find most effectively portrayed.
		"Waterland" is a profound study of human nature that not only displays the intricacies of people but also analyses the men and woman that live among us and for which each of us can find a name.
		Mary in "Waterland" leads a disturbingly bizarre life that ends with her kidnapping a baby; the transformation of her personality following the abortion and her increasing mental instability shows the fragility of the human mind.
		Her character as that of Ernest is astoundingly realistic and thus one of the most effective characters in the novel.
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	History, His Story, and Stories in Graham Swift's Waterland
		Near the close of the novel Swift's protagonist answers the charge that people resort to history only as a means of evasion with the counter claim that curiosity and the explanations to which it leads are necessary and inevitable.
		This whole novel, in fact, is an attempt to explain what went wrong -- what went wrong with his own life and Mary's, with the lives of his parents, and with the lives of both their families, who represent the peasant and wealthy entrepreneurial classes of Britain from the seventeenth century to the present.
		Waterland, which is cast in the form of a fictional autobiography, probes the role of narrative and in so doing raises questions about the means and methods of autobiography.
	www.postcolonialweb.org /uk/gswift/wl/gplstories.html (4973 words)

	Graham Swift
		In Waterland, this view is reflected by claiming that events like the French revolution and the Second World War did not ensure the World's progress as positivist historians insist.
		Waterland is particularly representative of the formal innovations associated with historiographic metafiction.
		As 'historiographic metafiction', Waterland taps into scholarly debate on the ontology of history and the cognitive status of both fiction and historiography in the late 20th century.
	www.mediagems.de /03literature/swift.html (756 words)

	Waterland (Vintage International) (Graham Swift)
		Swift's characters are painful in their realism, and are suggestive of the dynamic which guides the novel: the relationship between past and present, history and contemporary culture.
		This is a novel which will survive the ages and will stand as a symbol of the Fens for generations to come.
		Waterland questions history and memory, both from afar and up close, from times distant and in the present, but seemingly always very personal.
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	Literary Encyclopedia: Waterland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		The novel’s fifty-two sections, the titles of half of which begin with the exploratory preposition ‘about’, provide, through anachronic fragments of varying length, pieces of a puzzle which spans three centuries, recording, with obsessive detail and painful urgency, significant events in the lives and times of Tom Crick’s ancestors since the seventeenth century.
		The novel’s generic transformations are recognisable modulations of one voice and are related to the narrator’s life, facilitating storytelling.
		The archetypal landscape of the Fens constitutes the novel’s symbolic setting, an ambiguous world in which the paradoxical coexistence of opposites is illustrated through the novel’s title: water/land, a liquid accumulation of silt where terra firma must constantly be reclaimed.
	www.litencyc.com /php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=8699 (5147 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Fundamental Articles
		After enumerating what he regards as the fundamental articles of faith, he says: "An explicit belief of these is absolutely required of all those to whom the Gospel of Jesus Christ is preached, and salvation through his name proposed" (Works, ed., 1740, I, 583).
		Waterland's "Discourse of Fundamentals" should perhaps be mentioned, since it is the only work by an Anglican divine explicitly devoted to this subject.
		Waterland enumerates no less than ten different views on this point, which he rejects as inadequate.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06319a.htm (2326 words)

	‘Waterland’ (R)
		"Waterland" makes a valiant attempt to create a coherent movie from a highly interior, meandering novel.
		With the benefit of Irons's presence, "Waterland" creates the sense of a man haunted by his past.
		Chips"-like speech directed at Hawke, Irons explains himself as one created by his "disease of the fens," a love for homegrown stories about goblins, sprites, the mad woman of the marsh and tales of "sadness and despair." You simply have to take his word for it.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/waterlandr_a09e77.htm (472 words)

	Critical analysis of the opening chapters of Waterland.
		Swift describes the simplicity of his job, but follows by stressing the skill and dedication needed to the job (Almost as if Jacob is a reflection of Henry and Tom's roots).
		Waterland is an historical novel and explores the past, presenting an ironic fact, but also fictional, book.
		This is a clear example of a paradox where Tom and the characters can't live with history, but also can't live without it (This is also the case for the actual story, since there is no apparent place for fact in a fictitious novel, yet the book is not as fluent without it).
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	Video : Waterland / Movie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		It is one of those rare moments in life, when you go to a movie theatre, and just purchase a ticket for the next-best movie, not knowing (or caring) what it is about.
		The original novel the film is based on is set in England.
		Incomprehensible as it may seem to some to change the setting to a place in the USA for those parts that describe the adult life of that frustrated and unhappy history teacher, it gives the story added depth.
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	Literary Encyclopedia: Swift, Graham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Saying that he has attempted, from Waterland onwards, to open up and to write upon a wider “empty stage', Swift paused for a peregrination on his theme of inhibition, repression and confession in order to consider the idea that fiction writing is always, and even must be, at base biographical and narcissistic: “Perhaps another.
		Waterland is a tremendously rich many-textured and many-layered novel in which the form of linked history lessons repeats one of the story's central themes of public and personal history as siltation: the building-up by layers of “something” (land) out of “nothing” (water).
		All his novels contain the themes of nostalgia, failures of meaning and narrative (and the attempt to reinvent these), and of the loss of paternal authority.
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	Waterland Book at Shop Ireland
		This novel flows like a river through time and space, taking history and misfortune as its central themes.
		Told from the perspective of a London-based history teacher at the end of his school career, the narrator takes us (and his class of pupils) back to the lost Fenland of his youth, to revisit the past in an effort to understand what is happening to him in the present.
		After reading this novel I felt as though my brain had been silted up by the centuries of non-events and over-wrought narration flowing through it.
	www.shopireland.ie /books/detail/0330336320/Waterland- (521 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Waterland (xhtml) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		His story is told in "Waterland," based on a 1983 novel by Graham Swift that is set entirely in England (the transfer to Pittsburgh is a mystery, but not a serious distraction).
		Crick is played in the film by Jeremy Irons as a man whose brow is permanently creased with pain, and whose wife (Sinead Cusack) has gone mad in her own way, and stolen a baby from in front of a convenience store.
		The strange fact about "Waterland" is the way the performances and the dialogue are worthier than the story itself.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19921106/REVIEWS/211060304/1023 (557 words)

	Waterland Essays - History and Story Telling in Graham Swift's Waterland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Waterland uses history, theory, and fictional biography to address the question of history.
		If Waterland has a beginning, it is far in the geologic past, at a time when the continents began their slow journey to the positions they now occupy; however, the novel itself does not begin at this beginning.
		The historical and biographical accounts provide a context for the philosophy and theory that the narrator interjects throughout the novel; the philosophy and theory facilitate the leaps in time between geologic, historic, and biographic past.
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	The Michigan Daily Online
		The importance of history, and the gradual assembling of a story, are also features of Swift's previous work, most notably the 1983 novel "Waterland." As Swift said in an interview with The Michigan Daily, "I like that shifting point of view; I like to let the characters themselves construct their story."
		But the most striking thing about Swift's novels is that they are works of the imagination, in a literary world filled with autobiographies and memoirs.
		Swift's first novel was published in 1980, and since then he has written six other books, which have met with increasing acclaim and readership around the world.
	www.pub.umich.edu /daily/1997/apr/04-21-97/arts/arts6.html (556 words)

	English 396a (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		She seems to be the most important character in this novel, especially as she relates to other characters.
		Since she has such a major role in this novel would like to look at the relationships she has with other characters, and what it reflects about the novel.
		In the beginning of the novel it is clear that they are both very devoted to one another.
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	No End of History: Evidence from the Contemporary English Novel - Questia Online Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Indeed, a significant number of the more ambitious English novels of the 1980s and 1990s have in common an acute consciousness of history and a sharp focus on its meanings or potential for meaning.
		These novels are, for the most part, the products of an identifiable generation of writers who were born in the Forties or early Fifties and came of age professionally in the Eighties: the first generation of the post-World War II era.
		An exception to this generalization is A. Byatt (born in 1936), but her novel Possession (1990) could be said to exemplify this type of contemporary English novel most directly and clearly, if not most provocatively.
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	Perverse Sexuality in Possession, Oscar & Lucinda, and Waterland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		The already-sexualized nature of hair as a symbol of wantonness is multiplied in Carey's novel as Lucinda's hair cannot be tamed and Oscar is consistently recognized for and identified by means of his hair.
		Although Swift's narrator's deft disclosures of perverse or vaguely non-normative sexuality marks his novel, the pleasure resulting from these disclosures is anti-Foucauldian in a very different way; for Tom Crick, the pleasure in revealing the sexual is inseparable from the pleasure of the narrative.
		Since all of these novels in some ways narrativize the Victorian crisis of faith, their suggestion that this faith be re-placed with belief in the narrative is already revealed as a site of false consciousness through the novelists' use of the sexual.
	www.scholars.nus.edu.sg /htdocs_v1/landow/post/gender/perverse.html (1034 words)

	ENGLISH 362: ENGLISH NOVEL II
		This is a formidable task, as you'll see when you stack the novels on top of one another, and I expect you to take it seriously--to read, think, discuss, and write in an open yet critical manner.
		E.M. Forster, one of our novelists and an important critic of the genre wrote, "The final test of a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends.
		Class discussion and informal assignments will allow you to work toward interpretations of texts that you'll be able to expand upon in papers and exams; class participation will also demonstrate "effort," and will be heavily rewarded.
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