An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times
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Excerpt from An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern TimesMere copying is not art. The farther the artist rises above the stage of imitation, the higher is his art, the more elevating its in?uence on those who can enter into its spirit. If the landscape-painter does nothing more than represent nature as seen by the outward eye, the vulgar objection against looking at pictures  I can see as fine a view as this any day  is unquestionably valid. But if the painter is any thing better than a photographer, he does far more than this. He brings nature before us, as we ...
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- Works of Fiction In Modern Times
- Edited With Introduction and Notes By Fred Newton Scott Professor of Rhetoric in the University of Michigan
- COPYRIGHT Fred Newton Scott 1911
- THE ANN ARBOR PRESS ANN ARBOR, MICH.
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- AN ESTIMATE
- of the
- Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times
- I. PRINCIPLES OF ART
- A. EPIC, DRAMA, AND NOVEL
- FOOTNOTE:
- B. IMITATION vs. ART
- C. NATURE THE CREATION OF THOUGHT
- FOOTNOTES:
- D. THE "OUTWARD" ASPECT OF NATURE
- FOOTNOTE:
- E. CONQUEST OF NATURE BY ART
- FOOTNOTE:
- F. THE ARTIST AS IDEALIZER
- FOOTNOTE:
- G. THE EPIC
- H. TRAGEDY AS PURIFIER OF THE PASSIONS
- FOOTNOTES:
- I. TRAGEDY THE ELEVATION OF LIFE
- FOOTNOTE:
- J. CONDITIONS FAVORABLE TO TRAGEDY
- FOOTNOTE:
- II. THE NOVEL AN INFERIOR FORM OF ART
- A. BEGINNINGS OF THE NOVEL
- B. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SPECTATOR
- FOOTNOTES:
- C. THE MODERN NOVEL A REFLECTION OF ORDINARY LIFE
- FOOTNOTES:
- D. NATURALISM vs. IDEALISM
- E. TRAGEDY AND THE NOVEL
- F. THE EPIC AND THE NOVEL
- G. POETRY AND PROSE
- FOOTNOTES:
- H. THE NOVEL AN INCOMPLETE PRESENTATION OF LIFE
- FOOTNOTE:
- I. PRUDENCE THE NOVELIST'S HIGHEST MORALITY
- FOOTNOTES:
- J. EVIL EFFECTS OF NOVEL-READING
- FOOTNOTES:
- III. TRUE FUNCTION OF THE NOVEL
- A. A WIDENER OF EXPERIENCE
- B. AN EXPANDER OF SYMPATHIES
- FOOTNOTE:
- C. A CREATOR OF PUBLIC SENTIMENT
- D. A LEVELLER OF INTELLECTS
- APPENDIX
- A. AN APPRECIATION OF GREEN'S ESSAY
- B. HEGEL ON THE NOVEL
- FOOTNOTE:
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