| John Franklin Genung - 1900 - 702 páginas
...p. 1 16. This is said in the course of a criticism on Anthony Trollope, who, as the critic says, " took a suicidal satisfaction in reminding the reader...was telling was only, after all, a make-believe." 1 " Some central truth should be embodied in every work of fiction, which cannot indeed be compressed... | |
| 1894 - 980 páginas
...care to wait till the fall of the curtain. The one fault that Mr. James found with Trollope — that "he took a suicidal satisfaction in reminding the...he was telling was only, after all, a make-believe" — Mr. Lang never commits of malice prepense ; but though he does not confess this unpardonable sin... | |
| 1916 - 696 páginas
...space to quote the whole passage, but I must be content with a condensed version. He (Trollope) took & suicidal satisfaction in reminding the reader that...work in hand (in the course of that work) AS a novel, end to himself as a novelist, and was fond of letting the reader know that this novelist could direct... | |
| Rene Wellek - 1963 - 424 páginas
...principle is the sharp dividing line between old and new fiction. Trollope is criticised for "taking a suicidal satisfaction in reminding the reader that...was telling was only, after all, a make-believe." Trollope, James complains, "admits that the events he narrates have not really happened, and that he... | |
| C. C. Barfoot - 1982 - 234 páginas
...theirs. In his fine obituary article on Anthony Trollope26 Henry James comments on that novelist's 'suicidal satisfaction in reminding the reader that...was telling was only, after all, a make-believe', by habitually referring 'to the work in hand (in the course of that work) as a novel, and to himself... | |
| Edwin M. Eigner, George J. Worth - 1985 - 268 páginas
...prolific novelist, who had died seven months earlier. In that essay James had censured Trollope for taking 'a suicidal satisfaction in reminding the reader that...he was telling was only, after all, a make-believe' (p. 390), applying this stricture specifically to Barchester Towers (1857). 'Anthony Trollope', like... | |
| Margaret Bridges - 1990 - 244 páginas
...talent for realistic portrayal through blurred features and additional, geometrical lines. If one ever "took a suicidal satisfaction in reminding the reader...was telling was only, after all, a make-believe," as Henry James contends when presenting A. Trollope (1343), then Fowles's pleasure in violating the... | |
| Marie Murphy - 1992 - 140 páginas
...borders between reader/author and reality/fiction.34 31 In his essay "Anthony Trollope", James writes: "He took a suicidal satisfaction in reminding the...was telling was only, after all, a make-believe", p. 101. For James, the novelist should consider his story a history and himself a historian in order... | |
| Michael Davitt Bell - 1993 - 270 páginas
...published in 1883, shortly after Trollope's death. James here laments that the author of Barchester Towers "took a suicidal satisfaction in reminding the reader...he was telling was only, after all, a make-believe" — and that he, as novelist, "could direct the course of events according to his pleasure." "It is... | |
| Steven H. Gale - 1996 - 690 páginas
...themselves: Trollope took pleasure in refusing to see himself as an arttst. James complained that Trollope "took a suicidal satisfaction in reminding the reader...he was telling was only, after all, a make-believe. "2 Critics since James have often concurred, finding Trollope "anti-literary" and inartistic.1 The... | |
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