| Essays in the Art of Writing Contributor(s): Stevenson, Robert Louis (Author) |
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ISBN: 1544619731 ISBN-13: 9781544619736 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $6.55 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism |
| Physical Information: 0.12" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.20 lbs) 58 pages |
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| Publisher Description: I must therefore warn that well-known character, the general reader, that I am here embarked upon a most distasteful business: taking down the picture from the wall and looking on the back; and, like the inquiring child, pulling the musical cart to pieces. 1. Choice of Words.-The art of literature stands apart from among its sisters, because the material in which the literary artist works is the dialect of life; hence, on the one hand, a strange freshness and immediacy of address to the public mind, which is ready prepared to understand it; but hence, on the other, a singular limitation. The sister arts enjoy the use of a plastic and ductile material, like the modeller's clay; literature alone is condemned to work in mosaic with finite and quite rigid words. You have seen these blocks, dear to the nursery: this one a pillar, that a pediment, a third a window or a vase. |