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Regret :Martial, marital mortal (George Eliot, Joseph Conrad, Emily Bronte).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Regret :
Reminder of title:	Martial, marital mortal (George Eliot, Joseph Conrad, Emily Bronte).
Author:	Geerken, Ingrid Marie.
Description:	220 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Elaine Scarry.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-05, Section: A, page: 1670.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-05A.
Subject:	Literature, English.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3091562
ISBN:	0496392719

Regret :Martial, marital mortal (George Eliot, Joseph Conrad, Emily Bronte).
Geerken, Ingrid Marie.

Regret :Martial, marital mortal (George Eliot, Joseph Conrad, Emily Bronte). [electronic resource] - 220 p.

Adviser: Elaine Scarry.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 2003.

I employ three theoretical constructs throughout my analysis: the phenomenon of agent-regret (that has received its richest analysis from philosophers), what I call surge of affect (an aesthetic construct), and the desire for reparation (as theorized by object-relations theorists). Through a close reading of three texts (Conrad's Lord Jim, Eliot's Middlemarch, Bronte's Wuthering Heights, respectively), I generate a model of regret that is both specific to and transcendent of that text's moral problem or theme---whether it be war, marriage, or death.

ISBN: 0496392719Subjects--Topical Terms:

212435
Literature, English.

Regret :Martial, marital mortal (George Eliot, Joseph Conrad, Emily Bronte).
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520 # $a My dissertation is a study of the linguistic and narrative structure of regret in the nineteenth-century British novel. In it I investigate three kinds of regret: Martial (regret over the act of killing), Marital (regret over the act of marrying), and Mortal (regret over the death of a loved one). In each case, the experience of regret motivates and organizes a narrative propelled, respectively, by fear, rage, and intense grief.
520 # $a Regret is at once a feeling and a mode of analysis. In narrative, regret produces a structure that is both stable (a blueprint for the narrative or poem) and dynamic (filling the text with a set of fictional possibilities). Although regret is transhistorical, the Victorian novel gives a rich perspective on the poetics regret; for example, nineteenth-century constructs---such as tort law, divorce reform and burial rites---provide an historically grounded context to regret. At the same time, I remain attentive to the human habit of wishing that is perennial, both in art, and in life.
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