The Study of a Novel

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D.C. Heath, 1905 - 331 strani

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The Principal Masses
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Sequence of Dramatic and Nondramatic Masses
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Beginning Middle and
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Movement and Situation
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Event and Incident
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The Scene
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Episode
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Lines of Interest 35 The Line of Emotion 36 Points 37 Mass in Momentum 38 The Rate of Movement
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Climax and Foiling
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Reciprocity
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Analysis of Simpler Narratives
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CHAPTER III
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Meaning of Plot
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Necessity and Ideality of Narrative Plot
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Action and Narration 47
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Story 46 Story and Plot
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The Plot Proper
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The Single Action
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Sequence of Simple Narratives
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The Dramatic Line
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Character Point of View
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The Climax
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The Catastrophe
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Types of Plot
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Motivation
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Motivating Forces
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The Narrator
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Temporal Point of View
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Spatial Point of View
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THE SETTINGS 63 Esthetic Function of Settings 64 General Time Setting
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Detailed Time Settings
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General Place Setting
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Detailed Place Settings
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Circumstantial Settings
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Reality Ideality and Truth
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Vague and Exact Settings
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Natural Social and Socialized Settings
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Author and Dramatis Personæ
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Distribution
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Further Economy
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Character Unfolding
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CHAPTER V
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Chapter Distribution 78 Grouping in General
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Successive Groups
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Utterance
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Foreground Middleground and Background Characters
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Central Characters
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Identity Individuality and Type
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Association of Characters
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Direct and Indirect Characterization
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Relation to the Author
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Reality and Ideality
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Individuals and Types
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Social Groups
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Psychological Groups
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III
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Objective and Subjective Aspects
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SubjectMatter and Form
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Social Composition 110 Social Life
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Ideality
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Historical Period
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Historical Interpretation
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The Essay
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The Lyric
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Personal Episode
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National and Racial Influences
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Linguistic Influence
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Literary Influence
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Historical Influence
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Immediate Social Environment
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Human Nature
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The Influence of Nature
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CHAPTER XI
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The Data 162 Time Distribution
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Place Distribution
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Influence upon Literature
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Social Groups in General
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Influence upon Individuals
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Kind and Degree of Influence 168 Perceptual Effect
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Sensational Effect
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Emotional Effect
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Conceptual Effect
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Volitional Effect 173 The Influencing Elements
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The Causes of Influence
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Prose and Poetry
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Prose and Verse
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The Short Story
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The Epic
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Biography
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Journalism
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Other Types of Literature
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CHAPTER XIII
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Classification of the Arts 189 Method of Study
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The Drama
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Painting
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Sculpture
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Music
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Architecture
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Landscape Gardening
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CHAPTER XIV
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Language as External Material
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The Value of Form 200 Individuality of a Work of
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UnityGeneral Design
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Contrast
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Proportion
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The Comic and the Tragic
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The Beautiful and the Unbeautiful
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Artistic Truth
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Artistic Illusion
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PAGE
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Theories of the Novel
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Judgment of a Novel PAGE
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Systematic Analysis of a Novel
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Types of Prose Fiction
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Notes on the History of Novelistic Criticism
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Bibliography and References
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INDEX
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Stran 261 - Art is a human activity, consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings, and also experience them.
Stran 229 - If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident, or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked, or one steamboat blown up, or one cow run over on the Western Railroad, or one mad dog killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter, — we never need read of another. One is enough. If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care for a myriad instances and applications...
Stran 143 - Just when I seemed about to learn! Where is the thread now? Off again! The old trick! Only I discern — Infinite passion and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.
Stran 80 - The golden ripple on the wall came back again, and nothing else stirred in the room. The old, old fashion! The fashion that came in with our first garments, and will last unchanged until our race has run its course, and the wide firmament is rolled up like a scroll. The old, old fashion — Death!
Stran 293 - A novel is a large diffused picture, comprehending the characters of life, disposed in different groups, and exhibited in various attitudes, for the purposes of a uniform plan, and general occurrence, to which every individual figure is subservient. But this plan cannot be executed with propriety, probability, or success, without a principal personage to attract the attention, unite the incidents, unwind the clue of the labyrinth, and at last close...
Stran 302 - The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.
Stran 73 - ... for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost...
Stran xii - To-day's brief passion limits their range; It seethes with the morrow for us and more. They are perfect — how else? they shall never change: We are faulty — why not ? we have time in store. The Artificer's hand is not arrested With us; we are rough-hewn, nowise polished: They stand for our copy, and, once invested With all they can teach, we shall see them abolished.
Stran 291 - THERE remains to be treated of, another species of composition in prose, which comprehends a very numerous, though, in general, a very insignificant class of writings, known by the name of Romances and Novels.
Stran 201 - Similarly, when I am reminded by any chance of what it was that the waves were always saying, I wander in my fancy for a whole winter night about the streets of Paris — as I really did, with a heavy heart, on the night when my little friend and I parted company for ever.

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