Worlds apart : Umwelt and the construction of sympathy in “The lifted veil” and Middlemarch

This report modifies and re-envisions Jakob von Uexküll’s Umwelt theory as the “sympathetic umwelt,” in which sympathy is both the external object of desire and the internal means by which individual, subjective worlds are created. Through the application of this new paradigm to George Eliot’s “The...

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Main Author: Zhu, Lily Anne
Format: Others
Published: 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2152/26367