Between Sacred and Profane: Narrative Design and the Logic of Myth from Chaucer to CooverRodopi, 1987 - 188 páginas |
Contenido
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Chaucers Knights Tale and the Structure of Myth | 35 |
The Function of Doubling in Tom Jones | 48 |
Bleak House The Ambivalent Quest | 88 |
James Joyces Ulysses and the Breakdown of Form | 125 |
Coda Postmodern Writing Mediation as Meditation | 152 |
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Términos y frases comunes
action Allworthy's ambivalent Anatomy of Criticism apocalyptic Arnold Kettle beginning Bleak House Blifil Chancery characters Chaucer closure connotation consciousness contemporary contrast Coover's critics culture daimonic death decreation Dickens divine double vision Emelye epic Essays Esther Esther Summerson fact father fiction Fielding Fielding's figure formal fortune Frank Budgen function genre Henry Fielding human ideal identity James Joyce Jarndyce Jones and Bleak Joyce Joyce's Knight's Tale Lady Dedlock Lévi-Strauss literary literature logic London marriage meaning mediation metaphysical modern Molly Molly's moral mother mythic structure narrative narrator nature novel Odyssey opposition Palamon and Arcite Paradise Hall plot postmodern present Press problem profane quest reader realistic reality relationship René Girard return to origin ritual romance Ronald Paulson sacred secularization seems sense sexual significance social society Sophia Squire Allworthy story Study suggestion symbolic Theseus Tom Jones Tom's traditional Tulkinghorn Ulysses Western words York
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Página 129 - It is simply a way of controlling, of ordering, of giving a shape and a significance to the immense panorama of futility and anarchy which is contemporary...
Página 58 - I shall not look on myself as accountable to any court of critical jurisdiction whatever: for as I am, in reality, the founder of a new province of writing, so I am at liberty to make what laws I please therein.
Página 25 - By a correlation of this type, the overrating of blood relations is to the underrating of blood relations as the attempt to escape autochthony is to the impossibility to succeed in it.
Página 153 - I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting, and theme, and having once abandoned these familiar ways of thinking about fiction, totality of vision or structure was really all that remained.
Página 99 - Are we not straying as through an infinite nothing? Do we not feel the breath of empty space?
Página 105 - There is not an atom of Tom's slime, not a cubic inch of any pestilential gas in which he lives, not one obscenity or degradation about him, not an ignorance, not a wickedness, not a brutality of his committing, but shall work its retribution, through every order of society, up to the proudest of the proud, and to the highest of the high.
Página 16 - If we keep in mind that mythical thought always progresses from the awareness of oppositions toward their resolution, the reason for these choices becomes clearer. We need only assume that two opposite terms with no intermediary always tend to be replaced by two equivalent terms which admit of a third one as a mediator; then one of the polar terms and the mediator become replaced by a new triad, and so on.
Página 57 - NOTWITHSTANDING the sentiment of the Roman satirist, which denies the divinity of fortune, and the opinion of Seneca to the same purpose ; Cicero, who was, I believe, a wiser man than either of them, expressly holds the contrary ; and certain it is, there are some incidents in life so very strange and unaccountable, that it seems to require more than human skill and foresight in producing them.
Página 94 - Court, true to his title in his last act, has died the death of all Lord Chancellors in all Courts, and of all authorities in all places under all names soever, where false pretences are made, and where injustice is done. Call the death by any name Your Highness will, attribute it to whom you will, or say it might have been prevented how you will, it is the same death eternally — inborn, inbred, engendered in the corrupted humours of the vicious body itself, and that only— Spontaneous Combustion,...
Página 69 - IN that part of the western division of this kingdom which is commonly called Somersetshire, there lately lived (and perhaps lives still) a gentleman whose name was Allworthy, and who might well be called the favourite of both nature and fortune ; for both of these seem to have contended which should bless and enrich him most. In this contention, nature may seem...
