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Always Sympathize! Surface Reading, Affect, and George Eliot's Romola

Reilly, Ariana

Victorian studies, 2013-06, Vol.55 (4), p.629-646 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Bloomington: Indiana University Press

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Always Sympathize! Surface Reading, Affect, and George Eliot's Romola
Autor: Reilly, Ariana
Assuntos: 'Eliot, George' (Mary Ann Evans) ; 1800-1899 ; 19th century ; a Novel ; Affect ; Affect (Psychology) in literature ; Analysis ; Authors ; Books and reading ; Consciousness ; Criticism ; Criticism and interpretation ; Eliot, George ; emotions ; Empathy/Sympathy ; English Literature ; Exegesis & hermeneutics ; Hermeneutics ; History ; Literary criticism ; Methods ; Nineteenth Century ; novel ; Novelists ; Politics ; Reading ; Rhetoric ; Romola ; Works
É parte de: Victorian studies, 2013-06, Vol.55 (4), p.629-646
Descrição: Surface reading, the most prominent example of the recent backlash against the “hermeneutics of suspicion,” eschews traditional depth-based approaches to literary and cultural analysis in favor of more descriptive reading practices. Despite the stridency of these assertions, however, when compared to traditional reading practices the published examples of surface reading demonstrate little methodological innovation. A discursive analysis of the emotional rhetoric mobilized by these arguments suggests that the real issue at stake has less to do with methodological dissatisfaction than with political disappointment. A reading of George Eliot's Romola (1862–63) draws a parallel between Romola's disillusionment with her spiritual and political mentor and surface reading's frustration with a previous generation of critics whose political promises remain unfulfilled. Eliot's merciless dissection of both characters reminds us that, for her, sympathy was both an ethical mandate and a critical practice, a positive form of suspicion that reorients, rather than repudiates, accepted interpretive methodologies.
Editor: Bloomington: Indiana University Press
Idioma: Inglês

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