 But it happens, on the contrary, that my strongest effort is to avoid any such arbitrary picture, and to give a faithful account of men and things as they have mirrored themselves in my mind. The mirror is doubtless defective; the outlines will sometimes...  The Yale Literary Magazine - 122. lappuse1877Pilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
 | George Eliot - 2005 - 1416 lapas
...happens, on the contrary, that my strongest effort is to avoid any such arbitrary picture, and to give . outlines will sometimes be disturbed, the reflection faint or confused; but I feel as much bound to... | |
 | George Eliot - 2006 - 278 lapas
...happens, on the contrary, that my strongest effort is to avoid any such arbitrary picture, and to give a faithful account of men and things as they have...in my mind. The mirror is doubtless defective, the outlines will sometimes be disturbed, the reflection faint or confused; but I feel as much bound to... | |
 | Michael Davis - 2006 - 236 lapas
...novelist. At the beginning of her career, in Chapter Seventeen of Adam Bede, she declares her intent to 'give no more than a faithful account of men and...things as they have mirrored themselves in my mind' (p. 177). The implications of this image seem to contradict Lewes, who, as we saw in Chapter Four,... | |
 | Elizabeth Allen - 2006 - 318 lapas
...has spawned literature depriving readers of a salutary engagement with reality. Endeavoring "to give a faithful account of men and things as they have mirrored themselves in my mind" (171), the novel's narrator justifies her goal on the grounds that "there are few prophets in the world;... | |
 | Louis James - 2007 - 278 lapas
...artist's responsibility to represent only the objective truth: 'my strongest effort is ... to give a faithful account of men and things as they have mirrored themselves on my mind' (bk 2, ch. 17). The 'truth' is visual. The novel opens with a carefully composed picture... | |
 | Ruth Bernard Yeazell - 2008 - 294 lapas
...and fact," George Eliot knew full well that the mirror with which she worked was a mental instrument. "I aspire to give no more than a faithful account...things as they have mirrored themselves in my mind," says the narrator in the seventeenth chapter of Adam Bede.11 In a formula that Proust would adapt more... | |
 | Deborah Denenholz Morse, Martin A. Danahay - 2007 - 342 lapas
...critics (myself included) as the key to Eliot's early realism, which aims without idealization "to give a faithful account of men and things as they have mirrored themselves in my mind" (AB, ch. 17, pp. 164-5) by paying respectful attention to such particulars as "an old woman bending... | |
 | Nancy Henry - 2008 - 115 lapas
...the narrator explains in a chapter entitled "In which the story pauses a little," she can only give "a faithful account of men and things as they have mirrored themselves in my mind" (AB, 11:17). It is also in this chapter that she concentrates her arguments for the ethical imperative... | |
 | George Eliot - 1900 - 572 lapas
...happens, on the contrary, that my strongest effort is to avoid any such arbitrary picture, and to give a faithful account of men and things as they have...in my mind. The mirror is doubtless defective ; the outlines will sometimes be disturbed, the reflection faint or confused ; but I feel as much bound to... | |
 | 1901 - 116 lapas
...novelist is this: Is he or she an objective writer PHYSICIAN IN FICTION. ie Docs the novelist iu question aspire to give no more than a faithful account of men and things as they have mirrored themselves on his mind, or does he evolve his scenes and characters from his or her own imagination? A second... | |
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