Rereading George Eliot: Changing Responses to Her Experiments in LifeSUNY Press, 2 iul. 2003 - 220 pagini A noted Eliot scholar explores how we become different interpreters of literature as we undergo psychological change. 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. |
Cuprins
No Longer the Same Interpreter | 1 |
Dorothea Brooke | 23 |
The Two Selves of Tertius Lydgate | 59 |
Mary Garth | 81 |
CONTENTS | 91 |
Gwendolen Harleth | 111 |
1 | 113 |
6 | 120 |
Gwendolens Transformation | 139 |
A Therapeutic Relationship? | 157 |
Deronda the Deliverer | 179 |
16 | 182 |
Conclusion | 209 |
217 | |
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admiration afraid asks become behavior believe better Caleb Captain Davilow Casaubon chapter characters claims conscience critics Daniel Deronda desire despair despite Dorothea Dorothea Brooke dread duty egoist emotional epigraph evil experience F. R. Leavis Farebrother Farebrother's fear Featherstone fortunate fall fortune Fred's frustrated fulfillment George Eliot presents George Eliot tells George Eliot's rhetoric give Glasher Grandcourt's death guilt Gwendolen feels Gwendolen Harleth happy Harold Bloom Horney husband idealized image illusions imagined human impulses inner conflicts lead Leubronn live look Lydgate Lydgate's marrying Grandcourt Mary's Middlemarch mimesis mimetic portrait mind Mirah moral Mordecai mother murderous needs never novel person perspective position pride psychological relationship remorse REREADING GEORGE ELIOT rescue response rootless cosmopolitan Rosamond saved search for glory seems self-hatred selfish sense Sir Hugo spoiled child Stone Court suffering terror things thought tion transformation understand vocation wants wishes woman women wrong