Studies in the Novel, June 22nd, 1993
Samuel Richardson's 'Pamela' uses visual art techniques and recognizable emblems to convey levels of meaning. Richardson is innovative in his use of visual hermeneutic in that his narrator-protagonist Pamela does not interpret the symbols. This simultaneously compels the reader to interpret the work and establishes Pamela's naivete and innocence which are the novel's central concerns. Richardson's word pictures communicate the theological, historical and mythological assumptions that form the basis of 'Pamela' I 'art du grand poete et du grand peintre eat de vous montrer une circonstance fug...
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