Building the Brain: The Architectural Interior in George Eliot'sMiddlemarch
| Autor: | Molly Ryder |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Cultural Studies
Linguistics and Language History Literature and Literary Theory Communication media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 0507 social and economic geography Art history 06 humanities and the arts Representation (arts) Art 060202 literary studies 050701 cultural studies Language and Linguistics Mode (music) GEORGE (programming language) 0602 languages and literature Architecture Construct (philosophy) Realism media_common |
| Zdroj: | Victoriographies. 7:224-238 |
| ISSN: | 2044-2424 2044-2416 |
| Popis: | While George Eliot's use of organic structures (such as water, webs, and currents) as a vehicle for the representation of contemporary psychological theories and mental processes has been extensively explored, far less critical attention has been paid to the structural counterpart to these organic images: the labyrinth, staircase, and anteroom. Focusing on Middlemarch (1872), this article explores the slippage between the well-documented organic mode of representation and that of the architectural and built metaphors through which Eliot pushes at the boundaries of the realist aesthetic, as well as the moments in which she displays a conversion technique by describing something organic in architectural terms. Eliot demonstrates these conversions particularly during the portion of the novel set in Rome, a city that unites the architectural and the archaeological, allowing the novel's heroine to construct and renovate her vision of her husband's mind via these schemes. Through such analysis, this article argues that Eliot's formal mode creates a bridge between material and psychological realism. |
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