The Writer's Art : By Those Who Have Practiced It / Rollo Walter Brown.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brown, Rollo Walter, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authorship.

Literary style.

Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft.

Style, Literary.

Local Subjects:

Authorship.

Style, Literary.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (372 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2013

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.

Contents:

Frontmatter

PREFACE

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

I. PRELIMINARIES

TRUTH OF INTERCOURSE / Stevenson, Robert Louis

ON THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WRITING AND SPEAKING / Hazlitt, William

II. PRINCIPLES OF GROWTH

PRINCIPLES OF GROWTH / Dobell, Sidney Thompson

THE PRINCIPLES OF SUCCESS IN LITERATURE (II AND IV) / Lewes, George Henry

THE CARDINAL RULES OF RHETORIC / Emerson, Ralph Waldo

THE PRINCIPLE OF ECONOMY APPLIED TO WORDS / Spencer, Herbert

WORDS THAT LAUGH AND CRY

THE PHILOSOPHY OF COMPOSITION / Poe, Edgar Allan

MARGINALIA

JUDGMENTS OF AUTHORS / Eliot, George

SIMPLICITY IN ART / Norris, Frank

LANGUAGE AND THE MAN / Ruskin, John

THE MORALITY OF THE PROFESSION OF LETTERS / Stevenson, Robert Louis

ADVICE TO A YOUNG REVIEWER / Copleston, Edward

III. FICTIONAL NARRATIVE

WHAT EVERYONE KNOWS ABOUT EXPRESSION AND SOMETHING WHICH ALL THE WORLD DOES NOT KNOW / Diderot, Denis

THE NOVEL. GUY DE MAUPASSANT

THE ART OF FICTION / James, Henry

A HUMBLE REMONSTRANCE / Stevenson, Robert Louis

STORY-TELLING / Eliot, George

THE AIM OF FICTIONAL ART / Conrad, Joseph

A PROBLEM IN FICTION / Norris, Frank

FRANK NORRIS / Makepeace Thackeray, William

IV. THE QUESTION OF STYLE

DISCOURSE ON STYLE / Leclerc De Buffon, Georges-Louis

THE SINEWS OF STYLE / Thoreau, Henry David

STYLE AS ORGANIC AND AS MECHANIC / De Quincey, Thomas

ON STYLE / Schopenhauer, Arthur

ON FAMILIAR STYLE / Hazlitt, William

ON STYLE / Quiller-Couch, Arthur

INDEX

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

0-674-73251-0

OCLC:

1013940248