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Page 118
... beginning , a rise to a climax , and a decline to a static end when action is over . The threads in the novel are constantly interwoven ; one thing reacts upon another . There are digressions and interludes ; there are scores of clearly ...
... beginning , a rise to a climax , and a decline to a static end when action is over . The threads in the novel are constantly interwoven ; one thing reacts upon another . There are digressions and interludes ; there are scores of clearly ...
Page 122
... beginning at the end of his action and telling how it all happened . The classical theory of the epic called for a beginning in the middle of an action with a great deal of retrospective narrative explaining what had happened to bring ...
... beginning at the end of his action and telling how it all happened . The classical theory of the epic called for a beginning in the middle of an action with a great deal of retrospective narrative explaining what had happened to bring ...
Page 169
... beginning with only a hint or two , gradually builds up some of the greatest imaginative figures in literature . This revelation pro- ceeds sometimes from expanding knowledge of the char- acter , but with such great figures as Hamlet ...
... beginning with only a hint or two , gradually builds up some of the greatest imaginative figures in literature . This revelation pro- ceeds sometimes from expanding knowledge of the char- acter , but with such great figures as Hamlet ...
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action Æschylus audience ballad beauty Ben Jonson characters charm classic climax comedy complete criticism Darcy death developed dominance drama dramatic literature dramatist Edipus eighteenth century Elizabeth Elizabethan emotional English literature epic essay essayist experience exposition expression fate feel fiction George Eliot Greek tragedy Hamlet heroic heroic couplet human Iago iambic iambic pentameter ideas illusion imaginative important incident influence intense interest King literary lives lyric lyrical poetry Matthew Arnold Milton mind modern narrative neo-classic never novel novelist Othello Pater pattern period play plot poem poet poetic poetry popular present Pride and Prejudice prose reader Renaissance rhyme rhythm romance satire scene sense Shakespeare social sometimes song sonnet soul speech spirit stage stanza story structure student style sweet Tale Tartuffe thee theme thou thought tion trimeter unity verse vivid Walter Pater women words writers
References to this book
Catalogue of the Lamont Library, Harvard College Harvard University. Library. Lamont Library,Lamont Library No preview available - 1953 |