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Rereading George Eliot : changing responses to her experiments in life / / Bernard J. Paris



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Autore: Paris Bernard J Visualizza persona
Titolo: Rereading George Eliot : changing responses to her experiments in life / / Bernard J. Paris Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2003
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (235 p.)
Disciplina: 823/.8
Soggetto topico: Psychoanalysis and literature - England - History - 19th century
Psychological fiction, English - History and criticism
Psychology in literature
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-215) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- Preface -- No Longer the Same Interpreter -- “An Angel Beguiled”: Dorothea Brooke -- The Two Selves of Tertius Lydgate -- “A Dreadful Plain Girl”: Mary Garth -- “This Problematic Sylph”: Gwendolen Harleth -- “The Crushed Penitent”: Gwendolen’s Transformation -- Gwendolen and Daniel: A Therapeutic Relationship? -- Deronda the Deliverer -- Conclusion -- References -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: In a probing analysis that has broad implications for theories of reading, Bernard J. Paris explores how personal needs and changes in his own psychology have affected his responses to George Eliot over the years. Having lost his earlier enthusiasm for her "Religion of Humanity," he now appreciates the psychological intuitions that are embodied in her brilliant portraits of characters and relationships. Concentrating on Eliot's most impressive psychological novels, Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda, Paris focuses on her detailed portrayals of major characters in an effort to recover her intuitions and appreciate her mimetic achievement. He argues that although she intended for her characters to provide confirmation of her views, she was instead led to deeper, more enduring truths, although she did not consciously comprehend the discoveries she had made. Like her characters, Paris argues, these truths must be disengaged from her rhetoric in order to be perceived.
Titolo autorizzato: Rereading George Eliot  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-7914-8636-2
1-4175-3141-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910821041503321
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