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 16
... writer as he works at a piece of fiction may be very different from time to time and from writer to writer . One may start from a fragment of a situation in which the char- acters are very vague , and may gradually develop them from the ...
... writer as he works at a piece of fiction may be very different from time to time and from writer to writer . One may start from a fragment of a situation in which the char- acters are very vague , and may gradually develop them from the ...
Page 17
... writer knows about the event or can imagine about it . The writer has to develop this unity and pattern for his fiction . It is easy to realize the infinite amount of material which the writer has at his disposal if he choses to base a ...
... writer knows about the event or can imagine about it . The writer has to develop this unity and pattern for his fiction . It is easy to realize the infinite amount of material which the writer has at his disposal if he choses to base a ...
Page 20
... writer can enter at will into the thoughts and sensations of his characters , and can present information no single character might have presented - a method impossible to the writer who employs a narrator to whose con- sciousness the ...
... writer can enter at will into the thoughts and sensations of his characters , and can present information no single character might have presented - a method impossible to the writer who employs a narrator to whose con- sciousness the ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION TO POETRY | 17 |
Bret Harte | 35 |
Guy de Maupassant | 41 |
Copyright | |
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