An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Green, Thomas Hill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1440090904 ISBN 13: 9781440090905

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2012

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For a good many years I have used this essay of Green's with an advanced class in the theory of prose fiction. It has worked well. It always arouses discussion, and in doing so it has the great virtue that it imperiously leads the argu ment away from superficialities and centers it upon fundamentals. Its service as a stimulus to high thinking cannot easily be overestimated. For any student, and especially for one who has known only the unidea'd criticism of fiction so popular today, it is a fine thing to come in con tact with a high-minded, sturdy, and uncomprom ising thinker such as Green is. As Green says of the hearer of tragedy, He bears about him, for a time at least, among the rank vapors of the earth, something of the freshness and fragrance of the higher air. I trust that this reprint, by making the essay more easily accessible than it has been heretofore, will help to raise the grade of student thought and taste and criticism.

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For a good many years I have used this essay of Green swith an advanced class in the theory of prose fiction. It has worked well. It always arouses discussion, and in doing so it has the great virtue that it imperiously leads the argument away from superficialities and centers it upon fundamentals. I ts service as a stimulus to high thinking cannot easily he overestimated. For any student, and especially for one who has known only the unidead criticism of fiction so popular today, it is a fine thing to come in contact with a high-minded, sturdy, and uncompromising thinker such as Green is. As Green says of the hearer of tragedy, He bears about him, for a time at least, among the rank vapors of the earth, something of the freshness and fragrance of the higher air. trust that this reprint, by making the essay more easily accessible than it has been heretofore, will help to raise the grade of student thought and taste and criticism. F. N. S. University of Michigan December i, ipio.
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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1440090904
• ISBN 13: 9781440090905
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 82