The Modern Novel: A Study of the Purpose and the Meaning of Fiction: A Study Of The Purpose And The Meaning Of Fiction (1918) - Softcover

Follett, Wilson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0548609993 ISBN 13: 9780548609996

Verlag: Kessinger Pub Co, 2007

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This book is an attempt to trace the development of some important principles of fictional criticism during the two centuries of the novel in English, and to show how the development of these principles has in turn altered the shape of the modem novel. From the point of view here maintained, criticism is not only eflfect but also cause. I ts ideas are indeed gradually evolved from what has been done, and of course from what has been poorly done or left undone; but they are with equal certainty gradually incorporated into what is being done, and this second thalf of the process is none the less significant for having been so largely neglected by the conventional critic and historian. Criticism is a forecast as well as a record, and a leverage for raising the standard Vas well as a standard held up. This endless cycle of interactions is what I have studied, in an effort to show how criticism itself is creative, and especially how both the critical and the creative forces of past generations come to focus in the latest definable stage of fiction, that of the late 19th century and the early 20th. I have tried to accomplish that purpose with a due recognition that this, or any, latest stage is itself but tentative and experimental.
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• Verlag: Kessinger Pub Co
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0548609993
• ISBN 13: 9780548609996
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336