Patterns of epiphany : from Wordsworth to Tolstoy, Pater, and Barrett Browning /

Probing those puzzling but privileged moments, those sudden gifts of vision and illumination when the feeling of life intensifies and the senses quicken, Martin Bidney employs a new approach to analyze epiphanies in the poems, novels, short stories, and essays of eight nineteenth-century writers. Ta...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bidney, Martin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 1997.
Temas:
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, > 1806-1861 > Criticism and interpretation.
Wordsworth, William, > 1770-1850 > Criticism and interpretation.
Tolstoy, Leo, > graf, > 1828-1910 > Criticism and interpretation.
Pater, Walter, > 1839-1894 > Criticism and interpretation.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, > 1806-1861 > Critique et interprétation.
Wordsworth, William, > 1770-1850 > Critique et interprétation.
Tolstoy, Leo, > graf, > 1828-1910 > Critique et interprétation.
Pater, Walter, > 1839-1894 > Critique et interprétation.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, > 1806-1861
Pater, Walter, > 1839-1894
Tolstoy, Leo, > graf, > 1828-1910
Wordsworth, William, > 1770-1850
Tolstoj, Lev N.
Vojna i mir.
1800-1899
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Epiphanies in literature.
Romanticism.
Littérature anglaise > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Épiphanies (Insight) dans la littérature.
Romantisme.
romanticism (form of expression)
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature
Epiphanies in literature
Romanticism
Epiphanie
Literatur
English Literature.
English.
Languages & Literatures.
Englisch.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : how epiphanies are made
  • A pilgrim's dream of apocalypse : radiant geometry in Wordsworthian epiphanies
  • Fitful motions, fragil forms : elemental conflict in Coleridge
  • Duplicitous welcomers : water-fire epiphanies in Arnold
  • Love and liminality in Tennyson : the aweful dawn-rose and the wheel
  • Beauty and pain in Pater : the red-yellow fire flower, the dying white bird
  • Epiphanies from Odin to Teufelsdrockh : Carlylean heroism and the gospel of fire
  • Water, movement, roundness : epiphanies and history in Tolstoy's War and peace
  • Turning stones to fire : the apocalypse according to Barrett Browning
  • Conclusion : fifteen theses.

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