A Manual of the Art of Fiction: Prepared for the Use of Schools and CollegesDoubleday, Page, 1918 - 233 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة x
... Things Happen- The Narrative of Action - The Narrative of Character - Recapitulation . IV . PLOT . Narrative a Simplification of Life - Unity in Narrative - A Definite Objective Point - Con- struction , Analytic and Synthetic - The Im ...
... Things Happen- The Narrative of Action - The Narrative of Character - Recapitulation . IV . PLOT . Narrative a Simplification of Life - Unity in Narrative - A Definite Objective Point - Con- struction , Analytic and Synthetic - The Im ...
الصفحة xiii
... thing and to tell again something deserving remembrance . But the novel itself , and the short - story also , must confess that they have only of late been able to claim equality with the epic and the lyric , and with comedy and tragedy ...
... thing and to tell again something deserving remembrance . But the novel itself , and the short - story also , must confess that they have only of late been able to claim equality with the epic and the lyric , and with comedy and tragedy ...
الصفحة xviii
... thing , art had been ex- pected to emphasize a moral ; there was even a demand on the drama to be overtly didactic . Less than a score of years after Furetière's preface there was published an English translation of the Abbé d ...
... thing , art had been ex- pected to emphasize a moral ; there was even a demand on the drama to be overtly didactic . Less than a score of years after Furetière's preface there was published an English translation of the Abbé d ...
الصفحة xix
... thing only , it proves many things . Life is large , unlimited , and incessant ; and the lessons of the finest art are those of life itself ; they are not single but multiple . Who can declare what is the single moral con- tained in the ...
... thing only , it proves many things . Life is large , unlimited , and incessant ; and the lessons of the finest art are those of life itself ; they are not single but multiple . Who can declare what is the single moral con- tained in the ...
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... thing than the actuality of facts . This is why we know them and think of them as real people - old acquaintances whom we knew ( perhaps ) before we were born , when ( as is conceivable ) we lived with them in Plato's Realm of Ideas ...
... thing than the actuality of facts . This is why we know them and think of them as real people - old acquaintances whom we knew ( perhaps ) before we were born , when ( as is conceivable ) we lived with them in Plato's Realm of Ideas ...
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actors actual art of fiction artistic BLISS PERRY Brander Matthews chapter concrete critic definite delineating distinction drama dramatist economy of means Edgar Allan Poe element of action element of character emotional emphasis employed entire epic essay exhibit experience feel fiction-writer fictitious George Eliot George Meredith Guy de Maupassant happen Hawthorne Henry James hero imagined facts important incident individual intellect interest Jane Austen Kipling Kipling's Ligeia logical look major knot Markheim Master of Ballantrae materials matter merely method mind mood narrated narrative effect nature novel novelette novelist omniscience outset passage pattern person phases philosophic plot Poe's point of view prose purpose reader realist represent ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON romantic sake Scarlet Letter scene sense sentence short-story single sort stand Stevenson story structure style tale technical tell Thackeray theme thing thought tion tive told truths of human unity words writer of fiction written
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الصفحة 28 - Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall blame ; And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame ; But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star, Shall draw the Thing as he sees It for the God of Things as They Are!
الصفحة 204 - And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment; and yet thou never gavest me a kid that I might make merry with my friends...
الصفحة 209 - That like a broken purpose waste in air : So waste not thou ; but come ; for all the vales Await thee ; azure pillars of the hearth Arise to thee ; the children call, and I Thy shepherd pipe, and sweet is every sound, Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet ; Myriads of rivulets hurrying thro' the lawn, The moan of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees.
الصفحة 84 - I WAS ever of opinion that the honest man who married and brought up a large family did more service than he who continued single and only talked of population.
الصفحة 105 - Then, when the dusk of evening had come on, and not a sound disturbed the sacred stillness of the place — when the bright moon poured in her light on tomb and monument, on pillar, wall, and arch, and most of all (it seemed to them) upon her quiet grave...
الصفحة 27 - What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character? What is either a picture or a novel that is not of character? What else do we seek in it and find in it? It is an incident for a woman to stand up with her hand resting on a table and look out at you in a certain way; or if it be not an incident I think it will be hard to say what it is. At the same time it is an expression of character.
الصفحة 37 - That the novelist must write from his experience, that his "characters must be real and such as might be met with in actual life;" that "a young lady brought up in a quiet country village should avoid descriptions of garrison life...
الصفحة 200 - can I never — can I never be mistaken — these are the full, and the black, and the wild eyes — of my lost love — of the lady — of the LADY LIGEIA.
الصفحة 86 - So did his hair, just grizzled with an iron-gray, which was all brushed off his forehead, and stood bolt upright, or slightly drooped in kindred action with his heavy eyelids. So did his person, which was sleek though free from corpulency. So did his manner, which was soft and oily. In a word, even his plain black suit, and state of widower, and dangling double eyeglass, all tended to the same purpose, and cried aloud,
الصفحة 195 - For God is but a great will pervading all things by nature of its intentness. Man doth not yield him to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.