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Page 49
... expressive use of clothes , and the image of a marble statue . I should like to take some of these familiar structural symbols and to bear in mind both their place in the pattern and their local impact in this chapter . Only one of ...
... expressive use of clothes , and the image of a marble statue . I should like to take some of these familiar structural symbols and to bear in mind both their place in the pattern and their local impact in this chapter . Only one of ...
Page 53
... expressive of violent feeling . In this chapter George Eliot uses Dorothea's clothes not as symbols of value but as changing and highly expressive properties . Clothes are certainly important symbols in this novel , as associated with ...
... expressive of violent feeling . In this chapter George Eliot uses Dorothea's clothes not as symbols of value but as changing and highly expressive properties . Clothes are certainly important symbols in this novel , as associated with ...
Page 155
... expressive of Silas's social and psychic life , articulating the network of trifles which play their part in shaping lives . For Silas , the things are appropriate , minimal , common , and necessary . Other objects are influential in ...
... expressive of Silas's social and psychic life , articulating the network of trifles which play their part in shaping lives . For Silas , the things are appropriate , minimal , common , and necessary . Other objects are influential in ...
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