Novels of George EliotBarbara Hardy's Novels of George Eliot is a classic study of Eliots's outstanding powers as a great formal artist. The book's continuing appeal is due not simply to the perceptiveness and freshness of its writing but to the fact that form is interpreted in the widest sense to include whatever is relevant to the novels as organised, articulated, imaginative wholes and also as the direct expression of George Eliot's profound analysis of the human condition. |
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... appearance of accidentality . For all his intelligence , he sometimes equated the multiple plot with accidentality and formal carelessness ; George Eliot's view of narrative tension was certainly a looser and more generous one than ...
... appearance of accidentality . For all his intelligence , he sometimes equated the multiple plot with accidentality and formal carelessness ; George Eliot's view of narrative tension was certainly a looser and more generous one than ...
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... her imagery . Her irony , her continuity , and her presentation of change and collision , depend to some extent on repetitions , more or less prominent , of phrases and images which may make a casual first appearance . But we 8 ...
... her imagery . Her irony , her continuity , and her presentation of change and collision , depend to some extent on repetitions , more or less prominent , of phrases and images which may make a casual first appearance . But we 8 ...
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Barbara Hardy. which may make a casual first appearance . But we need not expect every novelist to use the verbal forms so prominently , and when Mrs Gaskell , for instance , uses recurring images from The Arabian Nights in North and ...
Barbara Hardy. which may make a casual first appearance . But we need not expect every novelist to use the verbal forms so prominently , and when Mrs Gaskell , for instance , uses recurring images from The Arabian Nights in North and ...
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... appearance of the world which is perhaps responsible also for the kind of tragedy which emerges from her human delineation . All her formal intricacy , far from providing the assertive geometrical pleasures of Lyly , is working 11 ...
... appearance of the world which is perhaps responsible also for the kind of tragedy which emerges from her human delineation . All her formal intricacy , far from providing the assertive geometrical pleasures of Lyly , is working 11 ...
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... appearances of nature . In the world of her narratives and in its human units we find the free life of realistic fiction at its best — free even to show the undramatic and unromantic bits of life — but organized by the intense and ...
... appearances of nature . In the world of her narratives and in its human units we find the free life of realistic fiction at its best — free even to show the undramatic and unromantic bits of life — but organized by the intense and ...
Contents
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14 | |
32 | |
The Heroines | 47 |
The Egoists | 68 |
V Character and Form | 78 |
VI Plot and Form | 115 |
VII Possibilities | 135 |
Intimate Prophetic and Dramatic | 155 |
IX The Scene as Image | 185 |
X The Pathetic Image | 201 |
XI The Ironical Image | 215 |
Conclusion | 233 |
Index | 239 |
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