| Description |
viii, 216 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 205-209. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Imagination and egoism in Middlemarch -- Egoism -- Imagination and interpretation -- Possibilities and plans -- Providence and power -- Consciousness and conscience -- Conclusion -- George Eliot and philosophy -- Action and passion in Anna Karenina -- What is to be done? -- Role-playing -- Action and passion -- Other obstacles to answering the question -- The second question: 'What is the meaning or significance of the situation?' -- Conclusion -- The self and others in the Brothers Karamazov -- The positive doctrine -- Understanding others -- Pride, shame, and resentment: and their passivity -- Self-punishment and other needs -- Ivan and Dmitri -- Conclusion -- Knowledge and illusion in a la recherche du temps perdu -- The faculties of, and the obstacles to, knowledge -- The nature of reality -- The role of the artist -- The nature of impressions and of knowledge -- Knowledge of persons -- Conclusion -- Philosophy, criticism, and the novel -- A theory of interpretation outlined -- Understanding a novel. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Performer |
ISBN 0-19-824533-5 Pbk : £1.75. |
| Subject |
Jones, Peter, 1935 December 18-
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Jones, Peter, 1935 December 18- |
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Fiction -- History and criticism.
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Fiction. |
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Philosophy in literature.
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Philosophy in literature. |
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Criticism.
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Criticism. |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Jones, Peter, 1935 Dec. 18- Philosophy and the novel. Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1975 (OCoLC)592987839 |
| ISBN |
0198245262 |
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9780198245261 |
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0198245335 (paperback) |
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9780198245339 (paperback) |
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