| Description |
x, 109 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Minnesota monographs in the humanities ; volume 2 |
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Minnesota monographs in the humanities ; v. 2
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| Contents |
Introduction : the whole novel -- A novel among the critics -- The novel in its time -- The psychology of moral character -- The structure of the myth -- The novel and its tradition |
| Summary |
As its title suggests, this study proposes to be experimental in method as well as exhaustive of its subject. It aims at a unified and full reading of a novel, and proposes Jane Austen's Mansfield Park as example. The method, having nothing new in its elements, is to apply a variety of critical approaches instead of choosing one or another of them, for applied in isolation they have led to misunderstandings of the novel. By widening the range of points of view, one makes it possible to see the novel as a subtle response to its own age and to certain eternal human concerns, rather than as the narrow defense of outworn values it has been taken to be. - Preface |
| Notes |
Bibliography: p. 99-103 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 99-103) |
| Notes |
Also issued online |
| Subject |
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817. Mansfield Park.
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| Author |
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817.
Mansfield Park.
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| LC no. |
67012671 |
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