Thyrsus

Kinloch, David (2008) Thyrsus. Journal of Stevenson Studies, 5. pp. 34-35. ISSN 1744-3857

Abstract

A two-page prose-poem about hearing a video in a 'gloomy gallery' of another writer rhapsodising about RLS's walking stick: wonderfully 'here', once 'actually' held by 'his hand'. He too attempts to 'lean in' and connect directly with the fictional worlds Stevenson created, through mixed recollections of 'Falesá', Treasure Island and Weir. T he 'capricious meanderings' of the piece seem to reflect those of the Bacchantes' thyrsus in the Baudelaire epigraph and the discourse about the stick being 'actually here' is deflated in a final note that claims that RLS never owned a walking stick.

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Kinloch, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3199-9729

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  Item type:	Article
  ID code:	26658
  Dates:	Date Event December 2008 Published
  Subjects:	Language and Literature > English literature
  Department:	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Humanities > English
  Depositing user:	Mr Douglas Iain Clark
  Date deposited:	16 Sep 2010 08:49
  Last modified:	11 Nov 2024 09:32
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  URI:	https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/26658