| Charlotte Perkins Gilman - 1899 - 72 pagine
...worse paper in my life. One of those sprawling flamboyant patterns committing every artistic sin. It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced...plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard-of contradictions. The color is repellant, almost revolting; a smouldering, unclean yellow,... | |
| 1892 - 848 pagine
...worse paper in my life. One of those sprawling flamboyant patterns committing even" artistic sin. It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced...angles, destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions. The color is repellant, almost revolting ; a smouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning... | |
| Shari Benstock - 1987 - 260 pagine
...unexpected and intense: One of those sprawling flamboyant patterns committing every artistic sin. It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced...angles, destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions. (13) Disguised as an acceptable feminine topic (interest in decor), the yellow wallpaper comes to occupy... | |
| Various - 1990 - 276 pagine
...every artistic sin. It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough constantly to irritate and provoke study, and when you follow the...curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide—plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard-of contradictions. The color... | |
| Marianne DeKoven - 1991 - 268 pagine
...(masculine) sun, "dull," "sickly," nearly extinguished by repression." The "sprawling flamboyant pattern" is "dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced...enough to constantly irritate and provoke study": in the very act of condemning the wallpaper's freedom here, the narrator cannot help but express her... | |
| Elizabeth Ammons - 1992 - 249 pagine
...Initially, the wallpaper attacks the narrator. The paper displays "lame uncertain curves . . . [which] suddenly commit suicide — plunge off at outrageous...angles, destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions" (YW, p. 13). It thrusts at her "a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and two... | |
| Elaine Showalter - 1993 - 352 pagine
...paper in my life. One of those sprawling flamboyant patterns committing every artistic sin. 100 It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced...angles, destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions. The colour is repellent, almost revolting; a smouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning... | |
| Susi Kotzinger, Gabriele Rippl - 1994 - 402 pagine
...flamhoyant patterns committing every artistie sin. It isdull enough toconfusetheeyeinfollowing, pronouuced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study, and when you follow the lame uucertain curves for a little distauce they suddenly commit suieide - plunge off at outrageous angles,... | |
| Michael Kenneally - 1995 - 494 pagine
...saw a worse paper in my life. One of those dull sprawling patterns committing every artistic sin. It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced...angles, destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions. The colour is repellent, almost revolting; a smouldering, unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning... | |
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