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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781477300077
035 _a(DE-B1597)588178
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040 _aDE-B1597
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aHilfer, Tony
_eautore
245 1 4 _aThe Ethics of Intensity in American Fiction /
_cTony Hilfer.
264 1 _aAustin :
_bUniversity of Texas Press,
_c[2021]
264 4 _c©1981
300 _a1 online resource (224 p.)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tPreface --
_tIntroduction --
_t1. Ethos vs. Pathos --
_t2. Pragmatic Philosophers and Realistic Novelists --
_t1. The Ethical Imperative: "Self, Self, Self in Victorian Fiction --
_t1."Self --
_t2. Religious Humanism --
_t3. Renunciation --
_t4. The Psychology of "Self --
_t5. The Analysis of "Self: Romola --
_t6. The Reaction from Analysis: The Cat on the Vivisection Table --
_t2. Whitman's Body: Kinesthetic Imagery and Sexual Pathos in "Song of Myself --
_tIntroduction --
_t1. Dissociations --
_t2. Reconstitutions --
_t3. A Modern Instance'. Pathos Subordinated to Ethos --
_t1. Whitman and Pathos, Eliot and Ethos --
_t2. Physical Signs as Ethical Signs --
_t3. Community Ethos: Ideal Motivations --
_t4. Tropisms: Real Motivations --
_t5. Bartley's Reveries: The Ethical Structuring of Consciousness --
_t6. Conscience as Inner Debate --
_t7. Negative Essence and False Consciousness --
_t8. Marital Realpolitik and the Stages of Degeneration --
_t9. Chance, Timing, Rhythm --
_t10. Punitive Tragedy --
_t4. Henry James: An Ethics of Intensity --
_tI. "The Beast in the Jungle" --
_tII. The Wings of the Dove --
_t5. Dreiser: Pathos as Ethos --
_t1. Dreiser's Barbaric Naturalism: The Ethical Attack --
_t2. Pathos as Ethos --
_t3. Dreiser's Platonism: "When I Read Spencer I Could Only Sigh" --
_t4. Carrie's Face: The Natural Expression of Longing --
_t5. Dreiser and Howells: Two Modes of Realism --
_t6. An American Tragedy: Sympathy and Discomfort --
_t6. Stein's "Melanctha": An Education in Pathos --
_t1. Stein as Radical Empiricist --
_t2. Understanding Wandering --
_t3. Real Experience: "The Squeeze of This World's Life" --
_t4. Melanctha and Jeff: Pathos vs. Ethos --
_tConclusion --
_tNotes --
_tIndex
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520 _aDrawing upon the philosophical theories of William James, Dewey, and Mead and focusing upon major works by Whitman, Stein, Howells, Dreiser, and Henry James, Anthony Hilfer explores how these authors have structured their characters' consciousness, their purpose in doing so, and how this presentation controls the reader's moral response. Hilfer contends that there was a significant change in the mode of character presentation in American literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The self defined in terms of a Victorian ethic and judged adversely for its departures from that code shifted to the self defined in terms of emotional intensity and judged adversely for its failures of nerve. In the first mode, characters are almost always wrong to yield to desire; in the second, characters are frequently wrong not to and, in fact, are seen less as the sum of their ethical choices than as the process of their longings. His conclusion: modern fiction is as overbalanced toward pathos as Victorian fiction was toward ethos. but the continued dialectic between the two is a tension that ought not be resolved.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2022)
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / General.
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856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.7560/720299
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