The Stone Angel as an appropriate title for Laurence’s novel

MEG-08
INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE ASSIGNMENT 2017-2018 (Based on Blocks 18) 
Course Code: MEG-08/ 2017-18 Max. Marks: 100

9. Do you think that The Stone Angel is an appropriate title for Laurence’s novel? Give reasons for your answer.

The Stone Angel – The Title

1. Laurence said in an interview with Michel Fabre (in 1981): “Titles are important as they should in some way express the theme of the  book in a rather poetic way.”

2. “Solid and, ethereal, opaque and spiritual, The StoneAngel confronts the reader with a challenge that is left all the move because  of the oxymoron  quality of the phrase,”  says Simone Vauthier in  her essay, “Image  in Stones, Images in Words.”

3. Says further Vauthier: “Announcing the new–the text to come–also resonates with the old: Thomas Wolfe’s lyrical novel,  Look Homeward Angel.  Hardly have  we had time  to puzzle  about it, however  when the  narration blocks our flight of imagination by presenting us with a fictional referent for the title. “Above the town, on the hill brow, the stone angel used to stand  ....” (p. 3)

4. (i) The Stone Angel is a marble statue “brought from Italy at great expense.”

(ii)  It is erected in the cemetery in memory of the narrator – protagonist's  mother.

(iii) This has its  effect on the narrator's  memory : “She viewed the  town with sightless  eyes.” (p. 3) This  is characteristic as much of Hagar as of the statue.

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