A Study on Yulgok's Literary Thoughts of Chinese Poems

2020 ◽  
Vol 102 (0) ◽  
pp. 39-59
Author(s):  
Yong-Jae Kim
Keyword(s):  
Literary Thoughts

scholarly journals REALISTIC RENDERING OF SELF-CONSCIOUS THOUGHT IN A. S. BYATT’S POSSESSION: THE PRESENTATION OF VICTORIAN VERSUS CONTEMPORARY IDEAS OF MAN, FAITH AND LOVE

AFEL ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 87-99
Author(s):  
SHABBIR AHMAD
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
George Eliot ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Realistic Rendering ◽  
Conscious Thought ◽  
Abstract Ideas ◽  
Authorial Voice ◽  
Sense Of Urgency ◽  
Literary Thoughts

The realistic rendering of Self-Conscious Thought in A. S. Byatt’s Possession is an evidence of Byatt’s success in making abstract ideas concrete. Possession, as an encyclopedia of theories and thoughts, Victorian or modern, is a novel in which ideas are less obtrusive and the author’s presence is intrusive. The twentieth-century part of the novel embodies Byatt’s confrontation with modern literary thoughts which are different in nature than the ideas incarnated in Victorians i.e. George Eliot’s fiction. Although such ideas are difficult to be turned into immediate daily concerns yet in Possession they fit into immediate personal dilemmas and gain a sense of urgency. A. S. Byatt, successfully, represents the universal ideas of man, faith and love, with a skeptic twentieth-century background in this novel. In addition, while George Eliot begins to generalize these ideas with an authorial voice, Byatt knows that these ideas have become equivocal, thus overthrowing authority of the author.

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