Criticism; the Foundations of Modern Literary JudgmentMark Schorer Harcourt, Brace, 1958 - 553 pages |
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... is the meaning of your morality and your conscious moral purpose ? Will you not define your terms and explain how ( a novel being a picture ) a picture can be either moral or immoral ? You wish to paint a moral picture HENRY JAMES 53.
... is the meaning of your morality and your conscious moral purpose ? Will you not define your terms and explain how ( a novel being a picture ) a picture can be either moral or immoral ? You wish to paint a moral picture HENRY JAMES 53.
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Mark Schorer. or immoral ? You wish to paint a moral picture or carve a moral statue : will you not tell us how you would set about it ? We are discussing the Art of Fiction ; questions of art are questions ( in the widest sense ) of ...
Mark Schorer. or immoral ? You wish to paint a moral picture or carve a moral statue : will you not tell us how you would set about it ? We are discussing the Art of Fiction ; questions of art are questions ( in the widest sense ) of ...
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... moral perfection , and that they can by no means be considered as edifying patterns for general imitation . Every epoch , under names more or less specious , has deified its peculiar errors ; Re- venge is the naked idol of the worship ...
... moral perfection , and that they can by no means be considered as edifying patterns for general imitation . Every epoch , under names more or less specious , has deified its peculiar errors ; Re- venge is the naked idol of the worship ...
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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