Thyrsus
Kinloch, David (2008) Thyrsus. Journal of Stevenson Studies, 5. pp. 34-35. ISSN 1744-3857
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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: DateEventDecember 2008PublishedKeywords: Robert Louis Stevenson, poetry, thyrsus, walking stick, English literature Subjects: Language and Literature > English literature Department: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > School of Humanities > English Depositing user: Mr Douglas Iain Clark Date deposited: 16 Sep 2010 08:49 Last modified: 18 Jan 2023 09:01 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/26658
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