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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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... formal power as widely as possible since it is in this case , as in most others , difficult to abstract strictly formal features like development or contrast or sym- metry from such things as plot and character and language . George ...
... formal power as widely as possible since it is in this case , as in most others , difficult to abstract strictly formal features like development or contrast or sym- metry from such things as plot and character and language . George ...
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... formal carelessness ; George Eliot's view of narrative tension was certainly a looser and more generous one than James's , but she hoped that every detail in Middlemarch had its place in the design of the whole . It is the unreliable ...
... formal carelessness ; George Eliot's view of narrative tension was certainly a looser and more generous one than James's , but she hoped that every detail in Middlemarch had its place in the design of the whole . It is the unreliable ...
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... formal unity and organization , then Silas Marner is rare indeed , for George Eliot's forms are almost always highly ... formal pleasure in balance and opposition and unity , and at the same time pre- sent its intellectual and moral ...
... formal unity and organization , then Silas Marner is rare indeed , for George Eliot's forms are almost always highly ... formal pleasure in balance and opposition and unity , and at the same time pre- sent its intellectual and moral ...
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... formal relationship rather than ordinary human relationship . The importance of Bloom's encounter with Stephen depends largely on this formal reading . We read the encounter in terms of ironical antithesis — the son looking for a father ...
... formal relationship rather than ordinary human relationship . The importance of Bloom's encounter with Stephen depends largely on this formal reading . We read the encounter in terms of ironical antithesis — the son looking for a father ...
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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