Story-writing: Lessons from the MastersHolt, 1926 - 246 pagine |
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Pagina 8
... writer , that of creating the illusion of the passage of time . This is not chiefly a matter of length , but length , extent , is a necessary ingredient . As a rule Poe recognizes the necessity of adequate length , but his insistence ...
... writer , that of creating the illusion of the passage of time . This is not chiefly a matter of length , but length , extent , is a necessary ingredient . As a rule Poe recognizes the necessity of adequate length , but his insistence ...
Pagina 10
... writer's brain before he writes his in- troduction , else how is he to know what he is to introduce , since his business at the outset is to in- troduce , not the first step of the story or the first character who enters , but to ...
... writer's brain before he writes his in- troduction , else how is he to know what he is to introduce , since his business at the outset is to in- troduce , not the first step of the story or the first character who enters , but to ...
Pagina 16
... writer of the story . " Before beginning to write , he had , of course , con- trived the one way for the agent of the murder to escape from the room without leaving a token . In writing he presented , first the room so apparently bare ...
... writer of the story . " Before beginning to write , he had , of course , con- trived the one way for the agent of the murder to escape from the room without leaving a token . In writing he presented , first the room so apparently bare ...
Pagina 18
... writer in proportion as it is not a dash of color applied after the work is done , but belongs to the inner mechanism of the story and helps him contrive it . A student introduced in a story as an element of artistic piquancy , a ...
... writer in proportion as it is not a dash of color applied after the work is done , but belongs to the inner mechanism of the story and helps him contrive it . A student introduced in a story as an element of artistic piquancy , a ...
Pagina 20
... writer explains the mar- velous element of his story to the satisfaction of his characters and his reader , romance is disappointed . If he leaves his characters mystified , and makes all clear to the reader , the result is the same ...
... writer explains the mar- velous element of his story to the satisfaction of his characters and his reader , romance is disappointed . If he leaves his characters mystified , and makes all clear to the reader , the result is the same ...
Parole e frasi comuni
Anderson appear Arlen artistic piquancy ballad beauty Black Cat Cæsar character charm Chekhov climax color Conrad consciousness contrivance dialogue Dorothy Richardson Dostoevsky effect element of artistic emotional expressionism expressionistic fact feel fiction girl give heart Heart of Darkness Henry Henry James Henry's human idea impression interest James Katherine Mansfield lady less LESSONS AND READING Ligeia light literary look Lord Jim lover Married Man's Story master ment method mind Miriam mood moral mother motive mystery narrative nature ness Nostromo objective Outpost of Progress Philosophy of Composition plot Poe's purpose reader READING ASSIGNMENTS realist reality seems sense sentimentality Sherwood Anderson shopgirl significance sion slang spirit story story-writer strange style suggest surprise tells thing tion Tommy tone truth Twa Sisters virtues W. D. Howells wife word writer wrote wul ye
Brani popolari
Pagina 5 - thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us - by that God we both adore Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore.
Pagina 32 - And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me.
Pagina xv - Whenever I read a book or a passage that particularly pleased me, in which a thing was said or an effect rendered with propriety, in which there was either some conspicuous force or some happy distinction in the style, I must sit down at once and set myself to ape that quality. I was unsuccessful, and I knew it; and tried again, and was again unsuccessful and always unsuccessful; but at least in these vain bouts, I got some practice in rhythm, in harmony, in construction and the co-ordination of...
Pagina 94 - But the truth is we are not to take "Anna Karénine " as a work of art; we are to take it as a piece of life. A piece of life it is. The author has not invented and combined it, he has seen it; it has all happened before his inward eye, and it was in this wise that it happened.
Pagina xv - ... that he can sit down at last, legions of words swarming to his call, dozens of turns of phrase simultaneously bidding for his choice, and he himself knowing what he wants to do and (within the narrow...
Pagina 140 - For the human mind is capable of being excited without the application of gross and violent stimulants ; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this, and who docs not further know, that one being is elevated above another, in proportion as he possesses this capability.
Pagina 32 - And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven. And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof.
Pagina 187 - It was his notion that the moment one of the people took one of the truths to himself, called it his truth, and tried to live his life by it, he became a grotesque and the truth he embraced became a falsehood.
Pagina 112 - There is no peace and no rest in the development of material interests. They have their law, and their justice. But it is founded on expediency, and is inhuman; it is without rectitude, without the continuity and the force that can be found only in a moral principle.
Pagina 62 - I know not whether he came in the Hanover ship, But I know that he lies and listens mute In an ancient mansion's crannies and holes : Arsenic, arsenic, sure, would do it, Except that now we poison our babes, poor souls ! It is all used up for that.