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Cite this page as follows: "The Plumed Serpent - Places Discussed." Critical Guide to Settings and Places in Literature, edited by R. Kent Rasmussen, eNotes.com, Inc., 2003, 30 May 2024 <https ...
For all the fervour of self-exploration apparent in Kangaroo, Lawrence’s novels were never simply ‘thought-adventures’; for most of his life they were a major source of his income. So we find him in Australia during July 1922 writing to his American...
27. Nov. 2017 · The Plumed (or Feathered) Serpent is a Mesoamerican myth that has fascinated modern people for quite some time. Among the Aztecs and Toltecs this divinity went by the name of Quetzalcoatl and to the Maya it was known as Kukulcan. It was a much-revered god who was believed to bring good tidings and civilization to humankind.
The Plumed Serpent is set in Mexico in the 1920s, an era of political turmoil, and centres on a revolutionary movement to revive the religion of the ancient Aztecs. The brilliant vision of place, the violent action and the rituals and myth for the new religion all combine to make it one of Lawrence's most vivid novels.
About The Plumed Serpent. From one of the greatest—and most controversial—writers of the 20th century comes a mesmerizing work of political imagination about a European woman’s self-annihilating plunge into the intrigues, passions, and pagan rituals of Mexico.
Summary. Kate Leslie is the widow of an Irish patriot. Restless after her husband’s death, she moves to Mexico with Owen Rhys, her American cousin. Mexico, however, oppresses Kate. Dark and ...
Quetzalcoatl is the Plumed Serpent, so hideous in the fanged, feathered, writhing stone of the National Museum. But Quetzalcoatl was, she vaguely remembered, a sort of fair-faced bearded god; the wind, the breath of life, the eyes that see and are unseen, like the stars by day.
