Forms of life : character and moral imagination in the novel /

The novel contains imagined lives that achieve a kind of meaning and intensity our own lives do not. Out of the novelist's moral imagination-the breadth and depth of his awareness of human motivations, tensions, and complexities-emerge fictional persons through whom we learn to read ourselves....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Price, Martin, 1920-2010
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1983.
Temas:
Fiction > History and criticism.
Characters and characteristics in literature.
Literature and morals.
Roman > Histoire et critique.
Personnages dans la littérature.
Littérature et morale.
FICTION > General.
Characters and characteristics in literature
Fiction
Literature and morals
Bewusstsein
Charakterisierung
Charakterkunde
Englisch
Held
Literatur
Menschenbild
Moral
Roman
Romans.
Persoonlijkheid.
Großbritannien
Englisch.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The fictional contract
  • Relevance and the emergence of form
  • The other self: problems of character
  • Austen: manners and morals
  • Stendhal: irony and freedom
  • Dickens: selves and systems
  • Eliot: the nature of decision
  • Tolstoy and the forms of life
  • James: the logic of intensity
  • Conrad: the limits of irony
  • Lawrence: levels of consciousness
  • Forster: inclusion and exclusion
  • The beauty of mortal conditions: Joyce, Woolf, Mann.

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