The Marvellous in Fielding's NovelsUniversity Press of America, 1981 - 235 pages The first full length work to explore in depth Fielding's concept of wonder and the marvellous. Argues that Fielding defended the classical Christian ideas of wonder) wonder as the beginning of Philosophy) in an age that reduced wonder to vulgar astonishment at the grotesque, the old, and the curious (what Fielding calls 'the monstrous'). |
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... things . " Yet this is not the same thing at all as scientific or philosophic re- search , but the mysterious insight into things which we associate with the truly gifted poet.6 This whole notion of heuresis lies at the heart of ...
... things . " Yet this is not the same thing at all as scientific or philosophic re- search , but the mysterious insight into things which we associate with the truly gifted poet.6 This whole notion of heuresis lies at the heart of ...
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... things of the spirit . The more substantial and the more profound this secret sense is , the more hidden it is for us ; so that , in truth , to say with the Schoolmen that the form is in things the proper principle of in- telligibility ...
... things of the spirit . The more substantial and the more profound this secret sense is , the more hidden it is for us ; so that , in truth , to say with the Schoolmen that the form is in things the proper principle of in- telligibility ...
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... things of the world to confound the things that are mighty " ( I Corinthians 1:27 ) . NOTES TO CHAPTER III lWorks , ed . Henley , 143.
... things of the world to confound the things that are mighty " ( I Corinthians 1:27 ) . NOTES TO CHAPTER III lWorks , ed . Henley , 143.
Contents
ART AS THE ABILITY TO CONCEAL | 1 |
NATURE AND FORTUNE AS INTELLI | 55 |
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