Fictional minds and interpersonal relationships in George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss / by Karam Nayebpour.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nayebpour, Karam, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Eliot, George, 1819-1880. Mill on the Floss--Criticism and interpretation.

Eliot, George.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (176 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.

Summary:

George Eliot (1819-1880) is known for her psychoanalysis of the majority of her characters in her literary works. In her second novel, The Mill on the Floss (1860), she focuses on the fictional minds' subjective first thoughts and intentions. She shows how their unsympathetic workings cause private and collective tragedy by the end of narrative. The novel has frequently been acclaimed by critics and readers alike. However, this book presents a re-evaluation of the text with the help of terminologies borrowed from cognitive narratology in order to shed new light on the significance of one-track minds in this narrative. The book explores the mental functioning of the individual fictional minds, and examines how different modes of mental activities influence the interpersonal relationships between and among the characters. Accordingly, the study argues that the main cause of tragedy in The Mill on the Floss stems from at least two factors. First, the central fictional minds primarily function on the basis of their self-centered thoughts and emotions, over which they usually do not have control. Second, the tragedy is an effect of the social minds' or public opinion's unforgetting, unforgiving, and unsympathetic perspectives of any unconventional behavior.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Chapter One

Chapter Two

2.1. Mr Tulliver's Biased Mind

2.2. The Dodson's Sense of Superiority

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

5.1. Philip Wakem's Unconventional Mind

5.2. Stephen Guest's Intramental Mind

5.3. Maggie's Imprudence vs. Lucy's Forgiveness

Chapter Six

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-5275-1798-5

OCLC:

1055656542