How to Write a Novel: A Practical Guide to the Art of FictionG. Richards, 1901 - 211 Seiten |
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Anthony Trollope Art of Fiction artistic beautiful beginning bird CHAPTER char characterisation characters colour course critic deal Deemster dénouement describe dialect dialogue difficulty dramatic effect exhausted eyes fact feel George Eliot give Guy de Maupassant Ian Maclaren idea imagination incident interest Interview Jane Barlow Jewess Jude the Obscure language literary art literature London lover Macbeth Magazine manner matter means melancholy method mind narrative necessary ness never novelist observe once paragraph Paul Bourget perhaps person plot poem possible purpose query question Raven reader remarks Review scene sentences Shakespeare short story soul speak stanza Stevenson student style success suggested tell thing Thomas Hardy thought tion tone true unity W. D. Howells Wilkie Collins woman Woman in White word Nevermore WRITE A NOVEL Writing Fiction written young
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Seite 194 - Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly, Though its answer little meaning — little relevancy bore; For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door, Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door, With such name as "Nevermore.
Seite 193 - Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter, In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore. Not the least obeisance made he; not...
Seite 72 - The broken sheds look'd sad and strange: Unlifted was the clinking latch; Weeded and worn the ancient thatch Upon the lonely moated grange. She only said, ' My life is dreary, He cometh not...
Seite 188 - ... species of despair which delights in self-torture — propounds them not altogether because he believes in the prophetic or demoniac character of the bird ( which, reason assures him, is merely repeating a lesson learned by rote) but because he experiences a frenzied pleasure in so modeling his questions as to receive from the expected "Nevermore" the most delicious because the most intolerable of sorrow.
Seite 191 - In general, to be found, it must be elaborately sought, and although a positive merit of the highest class, demands in its attainment less of invention than negation. Of course, I pretend to no originality in either the rhythm or metre of The Raven.
Seite 198 - Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
Seite 182 - Beauty the province of the poem, simply because it is an obvious rule of Art that effects should be made to spring as directly as possible from their causes...
Seite 196 - A raven, having learned by rote the single word "Nevermore" and having escaped from the custody of its owner, is driven at midnight through the violence of a storm to seek admission at a window from which a light still gleams — the chamber-window of a student, occupied half in poring over a volume, half in dreaming of a beloved mistress deceased.
Seite 194 - Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, — "Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore: Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!
Seite 181 - My next thought concerned the choice of an impression, or effect, to be conveyed ; and here I may as well observe that, throughout the construction I kept steadily in view the design of rendering the work wiiversally appreciable. I should be carried...