PSYCHE: MIRROR AND MIND IN "VANITY FAIR"

PSYCHE: MIRROR AND MIND IN "VANITY FAIR"

While we associate mirrors with realism’s aspiration to copy material reality’s concrete details, in Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray employs them to explore the unseen workings of consciousness, a use linked to his satirical project and its interest in things as they might be. Thackeray recr...

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Veröffentlicht in:ELH 2013-03, Vol.80 (1), p.125-147
1. Verfasser: BRINK-ROBY, HEATHER
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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Academic libraries
Concept of mind
Ectromelia
Hand mirrors
Hands
Literary criticism
Mind
Mirrors
Narrators
Novels
Psyche
Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811-1863)
Vanity
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Zusammenfassung:While we associate mirrors with realism’s aspiration to copy material reality’s concrete details, in Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray employs them to explore the unseen workings of consciousness, a use linked to his satirical project and its interest in things as they might be. Thackeray recruits the mirror’s full representational complexity to trace the structure and content of interior life, probing the mind’s ability to compose--not only to figure forth but also to found--an alternative world.
ISSN:0013-8304
1080-6547
1080-6547
DOI:10.1353/elh.2013.0001