American Literary EssaysLewis Gaston Leary Crowell, 1960 - 318 páginas |
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... novel must not preach , " you hear them say . As though it were possible to write a novel without a purpose , even if it is only the purpose to amuse . One is will- ing to admit that this savors a little of quibbling , for " purpose ...
... novel must not preach , " you hear them say . As though it were possible to write a novel without a purpose , even if it is only the purpose to amuse . One is will- ing to admit that this savors a little of quibbling , for " purpose ...
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... novel and the romance to answer as little to any reality . There are bad novels and good novels , as there are bad pictures and good pictures ; but that is the only distinc- tion in which I see any meaning , and I can as little imagine ...
... novel and the romance to answer as little to any reality . There are bad novels and good novels , as there are bad pictures and good pictures ; but that is the only distinc- tion in which I see any meaning , and I can as little imagine ...
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... novel , one might say , has been a kind of imperial enterprise , an appropriation of reality with the high purpose of bringing order to disorder . By contrast , as Lawrence observed in his Studies in Classic American Litera- ture , the ...
... novel , one might say , has been a kind of imperial enterprise , an appropriation of reality with the high purpose of bringing order to disorder . By contrast , as Lawrence observed in his Studies in Classic American Litera- ture , the ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Oliver Wendell Holmes 18091894 | 5 |
Washington Irving 17831859 | 16 |
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Allen Tate Amer American appeared artist beauty become called character consciousness conventional Cooper criticism culture Deerslayer E. B. White effect Emerson Emily Dickinson emotion England English essay experience expression eyes fact feel fiction genius give H. L. Mencken Hawthorne heart Henry James human ican ideal ideas images imagination intellectual interest jazz Karl Shapiro kind language Leaves of Grass less literary literature live look Lowell Mark Twain matter means Melville ment mind Moby Dick moral nature ness never novel novelist Parrington passion perhaps Pierre poem poet poetic poetry political present prose R. P. Blackmur reader reality romance scholar seems sense social society soul speak spirit stand story T. S. Eliot tell theme things thought tion tradition true truth ture verse Whitman whole words writing wrote