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The Lifted Veil/Brother Jacob

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Oxford
Kiadó: Oxford University Press
Kiadás helye: Oxford
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Kötés típusa: Ragasztott papírkötés
Oldalszám: 104 oldal
Sorozatcím: Oxford World's Classics
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Nyelv: Angol  
Méret: 20 cm x 13 cm
ISBN: 978-0-19-955505-5
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'She had believed that my wild poet's passion for her would make me her slave; and that, being her slave, I should execute her will in all things.'
The Lifted Veil (1859) is a dark fantasy woven from contemporary scientific interest in the physiology of the brain, mesmerism, phrenology, and experiments in revivification. Narrated by an egocentric, morbid young clairvoyant whose fascination for Bertha Grant lies partly in her obliquity, the story is an exploration of fiction's ability to offer insight into the self. The Lifted Veil is now justly one of the most widely read and critically discussed of Eliot's works.
Published as a companion piece to The Lifted Veil, Brother Jacob is by contrast a satirical modern fable and a more light-hearted examination of the relationship between art and lying. Both stories reveal Eliot's deep engagement with the question of whether there are 'necessary truths' independent of our perception of them, and the boundaries of art and the self. Helen... Tovább

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'She had believed that my wild poet's passion for her would make me her slave; and that, being her slave, I should execute her will in all things.'
The Lifted Veil (1859) is a dark fantasy woven from contemporary scientific interest in the physiology of the brain, mesmerism, phrenology, and experiments in revivification. Narrated by an egocentric, morbid young clairvoyant whose fascination for Bertha Grant lies partly in her obliquity, the story is an exploration of fiction's ability to offer insight into the self. The Lifted Veil is now justly one of the most widely read and critically discussed of Eliot's works.
Published as a companion piece to The Lifted Veil, Brother Jacob is by contrast a satirical modern fable and a more light-hearted examination of the relationship between art and lying. Both stories reveal Eliot's deep engagement with the question of whether there are 'necessary truths' independent of our perception of them, and the boundaries of art and the self. Helen Small's introduction casts new light on works which fully deserve to be read alongside Eliot's novels.
THIS EDITION INCLUDES
Introduction • Textual note • Bibliography Chronology • Explanatory notes
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Helen Small Vissza

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