In this study of British novelist John Cowper Powys, Joe Boulter concentrates on the novels Owen Glendower, Porius and Wolf Solent.

EXTRACT FROM THE INTRODUCTION

In these essays I do not argue that John Cowper Powys is a postmodernist novelist. Nor do I provide an interpretation of Powys using the techniques of postmodernist literary criticism.

What I do is use some of the analogies between Powys's themes and techniques and the themes and techniques of postmodernist theorists as the basis for interpretations of some of Powys's novels. In other...