An Approach to Literature: A Collection of Prose and Verse with Analyses and DiscussionsCleanth Brooks, John Thibaut Purser, Robert Penn Warren F. S. Crofts & Company, 1939 - 634 pages |
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Page 13
... fictional theme is more artistic . But we may say that a piece of fiction is artistic when it succeeds in mov- ing us so that we feel the force of the emotion in it . and feel that its theme is justified by the circum- stances of the ...
... fictional theme is more artistic . But we may say that a piece of fiction is artistic when it succeeds in mov- ing us so that we feel the force of the emotion in it . and feel that its theme is justified by the circum- stances of the ...
Page 16
... fiction . It will perhaps be more instructive to try to put ourselves in the place of a writer who is setting out to compose a piece of fiction than to think of ourselves as breaking up a piece of fiction already composed . For it must ...
... fiction . It will perhaps be more instructive to try to put ourselves in the place of a writer who is setting out to compose a piece of fiction than to think of ourselves as breaking up a piece of fiction already composed . For it must ...
Page 633
... fiction or drama . See " Fiction , " pp . 10-11 . POINT OF VIEW : Since the phrase means literally the place from which something is observed , it means , when applied to fiction , the mind through which the material of the story is ...
... fiction or drama . See " Fiction , " pp . 10-11 . POINT OF VIEW : Since the phrase means literally the place from which something is observed , it means , when applied to fiction , the mind through which the material of the story is ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION TO POETRY | 17 |
Bret Harte | 35 |
Guy de Maupassant | 41 |
Copyright | |
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