Thackeray’s Cultural Frame of Reference: Allusion in The NewcomesSpringer, 18/06/1991 - 194 páginas This study of "The Newcomes" explores the cultural density found within the novel and reveals how Thackeray exploited allusion in order to present an archetypal and cyclical vision of life, questioning the status and value of fictions and blurring distinctions between history and fiction. |
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... Clive married Ethel , but is left to fend for himself among a variety of options and opinions : It was provoking that he [ Pendennis , the fictive narrator ] should retire to the shades without answering that sentimental ques- tion ...
... Clive married Ethel , but is left to fend for himself among a variety of options and opinions : It was provoking that he [ Pendennis , the fictive narrator ] should retire to the shades without answering that sentimental ques- tion ...
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... Clive Newcome , as a rather green young man , encounters the inter- national gambling set at Baden . His earnest ... Ethel , moving in the midst of these folks , to the lady amidst the rout of Comus . ( pp . 355-6 ) This set of allusions ...
... Clive Newcome , as a rather green young man , encounters the inter- national gambling set at Baden . His earnest ... Ethel , moving in the midst of these folks , to the lady amidst the rout of Comus . ( pp . 355-6 ) This set of allusions ...
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... Clive and Ethel in the chapter are full of sentiment but also of stylish artifice - I expect Thackeray has Marivaux in mind . The second paragraph sets the scene : Suppose then , in the quaint old garden of the Hôtel de Florac , two ...
... Clive and Ethel in the chapter are full of sentiment but also of stylish artifice - I expect Thackeray has Marivaux in mind . The second paragraph sets the scene : Suppose then , in the quaint old garden of the Hôtel de Florac , two ...
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... Ethel and Clive . Although the Keatsian allusion is a parody , Keats's structure of a Platonic perfection mocking a world of hearts high - sorrowful and cloyed parallels Thackeray's world of romantic design opposed to ordinary human ...
... Ethel and Clive . Although the Keatsian allusion is a parody , Keats's structure of a Platonic perfection mocking a world of hearts high - sorrowful and cloyed parallels Thackeray's world of romantic design opposed to ordinary human ...
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... Clive's romantic attachment to Ethel , around which a whole series of intertextual oppositions of romance and realism proliferates , as in the elaborate eighteenth - century dramatic artifice of chapter 47 , ' Contains Two or Three Acts ...
... Clive's romantic attachment to Ethel , around which a whole series of intertextual oppositions of romance and realism proliferates , as in the elaborate eighteenth - century dramatic artifice of chapter 47 , ' Contains Two or Three Acts ...
Índice
The Art World | 87 |
History and India | 106 |
France of the Citizen King | 120 |
London and the Significance of Topography | 134 |
Newspapers | 159 |
Notes | 172 |
Index | 185 |
Outras edições - Ver tudo
Thackeray's Cultural Frame of Reference: Allusion in The Newcomes Rowland McMaster Pré-visualização limitada - 1991 |
Thackeray's Cultural Frame of Reference: Allusion in The Newcomes R. McMaster Pré-visualização limitada - 1991 |
Thackeray's Cultural Frame of Reference: Allusion in the Newcomes Rowland McMaster Visualização de excertos - 1991 |
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