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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... characters in the novel are often intertextually appropriated , the Colonel as Don Quixote , the zealous Victor de Castillones , who wounds Lord Kew in a duel , as George Sand's Stenio . The delightful Mr. Binnie , a sceptical Scot and ...
... characters in the novel are often intertextually appropriated , the Colonel as Don Quixote , the zealous Victor de Castillones , who wounds Lord Kew in a duel , as George Sand's Stenio . The delightful Mr. Binnie , a sceptical Scot and ...
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... characters and motifs from seven of Aesop's fables ( the ones pictured in the novel's monthly cover design ) and allusions to Perrault's Red Riding Hood ( in French and English , and with the familiar dialogue , ' What Large Eyes you ...
... characters and motifs from seven of Aesop's fables ( the ones pictured in the novel's monthly cover design ) and allusions to Perrault's Red Riding Hood ( in French and English , and with the familiar dialogue , ' What Large Eyes you ...
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... characters are age old and recurrent . Again the double perspective operates . Viewed comprehensively , the ... character within the panorama , everything seems unique : ' There may be nothing new under and including the sun ; but it ...
... characters are age old and recurrent . Again the double perspective operates . Viewed comprehensively , the ... character within the panorama , everything seems unique : ' There may be nothing new under and including the sun ; but it ...
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... characters of epic and tragedy and the denizens of Baden behave alike , though in a changed setting , he is im- plicitly reiterating his general argument in The Newcomes that ' All types of all characters march through all fables ...
... characters of epic and tragedy and the denizens of Baden behave alike , though in a changed setting , he is im- plicitly reiterating his general argument in The Newcomes that ' All types of all characters march through all fables ...
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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 |
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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 |
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