Thackeray's Cultural Frame of Reference: Allusion in the NewcomesMacmillan, 1991 - 194 Seiten 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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... literature , and certainly quotation from it , is much less common in The Newcomes . Clive's encounter with classical sculpture in the Louvre makes him regret his want of Greek : ' I wish I had read Greek a little more at school : it's ...
... literature , and certainly quotation from it , is much less common in The Newcomes . Clive's encounter with classical sculpture in the Louvre makes him regret his want of Greek : ' I wish I had read Greek a little more at school : it's ...
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... literature and experience : that they recur in varying reformulations expressive of basic human desires and fears , conscious and unconscious . Com- ing first temporally , the literature of childhood provides many of the formulations ...
... literature and experience : that they recur in varying reformulations expressive of basic human desires and fears , conscious and unconscious . Com- ing first temporally , the literature of childhood provides many of the formulations ...
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... Literature , I ( 1976 ) , no . 9 , p . 117 . Thomas Carlyle , ' Characteristics ' , in Scottish and Other Miscellanies , Everyman edition ( London : Dent , 1915 ) pp . 187 . Hippolyte Taine , History of English Literature , 3 vols ( New ...
... Literature , I ( 1976 ) , no . 9 , p . 117 . Thomas Carlyle , ' Characteristics ' , in Scottish and Other Miscellanies , Everyman edition ( London : Dent , 1915 ) pp . 187 . Hippolyte Taine , History of English Literature , 3 vols ( New ...
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The Art World | 87 |
History and India | 106 |
France of the Citizen King | 120 |
Urheberrecht | |
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