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- W2917082436 abstract "Vision and the visual play an important role in Edith Wharton’s works. Wharton uses a widescope of visual figures – ranging from high art, technology, transportation, nature, evenwaste – in order to express her views on art, her skepticism toward modernity and progress,and her unsentimental view of the past. Wharton uses ekphrasis in The House of Mirth toexpress her views on art and whether art should be treated as a material object. Moreover,her choice of visual figures shows “how much Wharton was negotiating modernity in herwriting.” (Hoeller, p 137) Images of transportation, technology and rubbish found in TheHouse of Mirth have very negative connotations – something that betrays her skepticismtowards the idea of progress. Moreover, the style used in Ethan Frome is modernist. Thesame way modernist writers “(…) achieved a hard-edged quality with images of metals,especially steel,” (Singley, p 125) Wharton does “with New England granite.” (125)Moreover, Wharton’s skepticism towards progress is by no means a sign of her favoring thepast. Her ambivalence toward the past is apparent in her use of tribal imagery, and imageryof tombs, doomed cities and pyramids in The Age of Innocence; the society of old New Yorkis portrayed as oppressive and suffocating.The main characters in all three novels possess a certain “tendency toward visualsensibility,” (Miller, p 15) and an “artistic temperament.” (Miller, p 18) Their “visualsensibility” is very influential in the way they view themselves, each other and the worldaround them I oYen through the lens of visual arts, but also nature, technology etc.Moreover, Wharton continually draws attention to the discrepancy between their vision ofthe world and the reality around them. Therefore, vision and the visual are of greatimportance when analyzing the focalizing consciousnesses in Edith Wharton’s fiction." @default.
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- W2917082436 title "The visual figures in Edith Wharton’s The house of mirth, The age of innocence and Ethan Frome" @default.
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