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Page 52
... action is to slip in and out of life itself . She seems to fall in love with Callistes , but because of her flickering identity , that love is a kind of amour spirituel , emanating with an inhuman cool- ness . Her actions have a ...
... action is to slip in and out of life itself . She seems to fall in love with Callistes , but because of her flickering identity , that love is a kind of amour spirituel , emanating with an inhuman cool- ness . Her actions have a ...
Page 66
... action or metaphor shades into the next action or metaphor ; events are not only discrete - a song spirals as a chain of sound - but the actions have a similar shape , that of the spiral ascent , for exam- ple . If these actions are ...
... action or metaphor shades into the next action or metaphor ; events are not only discrete - a song spirals as a chain of sound - but the actions have a similar shape , that of the spiral ascent , for exam- ple . If these actions are ...
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... action- the spiraling syntax in " Day of the Daughter of Hades , " the ascent of the lark in " The Lark Ascending " -all imply a unity in nature where one physical action or metaphor shades into the next . From a series of analogous actions ...
... action- the spiraling syntax in " Day of the Daughter of Hades , " the ascent of the lark in " The Lark Ascending " -all imply a unity in nature where one physical action or metaphor shades into the next . From a series of analogous actions ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
CHAPTER TWO Versions of the Self | 23 |
CHAPTER THREE The Fragility of Narrative Form | 51 |
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action adjectives allegorical appears artifice Attila awareness Ballad of Fair Ballad of Past bird Callistes cloud Comic Spirit compounds conception connotative consciousness context convey Daughter of Hades dawn death Demeter dramatic earth echo Egoist experience Fair Ladies Faith on Trial fiction figure G. M. Trevelyan George Meredith heaven human Hymn to Colour ideal Ildico imagery imagination implied Joseph Warren Beach Ladies in Revolt landscape language Lark Ascending Letters light lines Lyre lyric M. H. Abrams meaning Melampus Meredith's poems Meredith's poetry Meredithian metaphor mind mode Modern Love myth mythic narrative natural world Night of Frost nineteenth century nouns Nuptials of Attila Oliver Elton passage Past Meridian Pathetic Fallacy perceive perception personification plot in nature poet poetic prosopopoeia relation Romantic scene sense shape simile Skiágeneia song sonnet speaker stanza structure suggests symbolic syntactical syntax thematic theme tion verb vision Woods of Westermain words