Criticism; the Foundations of Modern Literary JudgmentMark Schorer Harcourt, Brace, 1958 - 553 pages |
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Page 45
... less favor- able to our immortal part than a stage - play , ✓ was in reality far less insulting . The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does at- tempt to represent life . When it relinquishes this attempt , the same ...
... less favor- able to our immortal part than a stage - play , ✓ was in reality far less insulting . The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does at- tempt to represent life . When it relinquishes this attempt , the same ...
Page 174
... less and less communicative as it approaches the relative autonomy of the dream life . But perhaps we must stop to ask whether , since these are the components of the Zeitgeist from which Freud himself developed , it can be said that ...
... less and less communicative as it approaches the relative autonomy of the dream life . But perhaps we must stop to ask whether , since these are the components of the Zeitgeist from which Freud himself developed , it can be said that ...
Page 286
... less oblique : there is no direct poetry . But the terms " less oblique " and " more oblique " would sound ridiculous ; and the only way to be emphatic or even generally intelligible is by exaggeration to force a hypothetical but ...
... less oblique : there is no direct poetry . But the terms " less oblique " and " more oblique " would sound ridiculous ; and the only way to be emphatic or even generally intelligible is by exaggeration to force a hypothetical but ...
Contents
PLATO The Poet in the Republic | 1 |
LONGINUS On the Sublime | 10 |
THOMAS HOBBES Answer to Sir William Davenants | 25 |
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