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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Page 2
... says that George Eliot ' has no sense of form ' . Theodora , the admirer and defender , can only assent , making the qualification , ' There is something higher than form — there is spirit ' . It is my contention that spirit and form ...
... says that George Eliot ' has no sense of form ' . Theodora , the admirer and defender , can only assent , making the qualification , ' There is something higher than form — there is spirit ' . It is my contention that spirit and form ...
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... says : ' As a rule , however , she shows but a slight power over the great art of construction . And this gives an added importance to Silas Marner — the one story of hers which can be approached from the artistic point of view , for it ...
... says : ' As a rule , however , she shows but a slight power over the great art of construction . And this gives an added importance to Silas Marner — the one story of hers which can be approached from the artistic point of view , for it ...
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... say whether the absence or distortion of conventional narrative makes the pattern plainer , or whether the pattern is pressed into the service of making a distorted human delineation plain and sig- nificant . It is probably a little of ...
... say whether the absence or distortion of conventional narrative makes the pattern plainer , or whether the pattern is pressed into the service of making a distorted human delineation plain and sig- nificant . It is probably a little of ...
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... say ' may mean ' advisedly , because there are dead ends when we explore the units of pattern in literature as there are not when we analyse the human body . Some writers — and George Eliot is one — are susceptible to a much more ...
... say ' may mean ' advisedly , because there are dead ends when we explore the units of pattern in literature as there are not when we analyse the human body . Some writers — and George Eliot is one — are susceptible to a much more ...
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... say very much more , in quantitative terms , than the lyric poem , very often uses the verbal medium of prose dramatically or reflectively or informatively but without drawing it into the composition and organizing repetition and ...
... say very much more , in quantitative terms , than the lyric poem , very often uses the verbal medium of prose dramatically or reflectively or informatively but without drawing it into the composition and organizing repetition 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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