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Coda = primer on disorders people can have in producing narrative --> evidence for how important narrative is for organizing human life (of course, the existence of disorders also points to other ways of being, but this is not fully acknowledged).
— Feb 07, 2013 08:05AM
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Tess as half conscious, sexualized. Narcissists, Angel and Alec, only see her as extension of themselves, not *her*--she reminds the man of his inability to be whole = must be annihilated herself. Psychoanalysis.
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Hardy writes character as mood and resists explaining motives, character for him is temperament, or the emotional tendencies of one's mind.
— Feb 06, 2013 07:08PM
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Hardy makes impulse a primary mental state for characters,
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Music as vibrating, resonating mind to mind in Middlemarch. Analogy for empathy.
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George Eliot's fiction tries to transcend the terror of separateness as well as her own skepticism.
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If memory holds the sense of the past, imagination holds the future.
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Emma is a Romantic who forces the world to bend to her imagination. Mr. Knightley is an empirical realist.
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George Bluestone--the novel is about the making of the hidden life of consciousness. Wrote Nivels into Film, classic work on adaptation.
— Feb 06, 2013 07:03PM
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"I seek to bring to consciousness how novel-imagining creates what no neuro-imaging can map--the experience of how we mind"
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