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Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism [First Series]
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Chapters (35)
- DEFINITIONS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- I
- FREE FICTION
- A CERTAIN CONDESCENSION TOWARD FICTION
- THE ESSENCE OF POPULARITY
- II
- BACK TO NATURE
- THANKS TO THE ARTISTS
- TO-DAY IN AMERICAN LITERATURE: ADDRESSED TO THE BRITISH
- TIME'S MIRROR
- THE FAMILY MAGAZINE
- III
- PURITANS ALL
- THE OLDER GENERATION
- A LITERATURE OF PROTEST
- BARBARIANS A LA MODE
- IV
- THE RACE OF REVIEWERS
- THE SINS OF REVIEWING
- MRS. WHARTON'S "THE AGE OF INNOCENCE"
- MR. HERGESHEIMER'S "CYTHEREA"
- V
- EYE, EAR, AND MIND
- OUT WITH THE DILETTANTE
- FLAT PROSE
- VI
- THE NOVELIST OF PITY
- AFTER SCENE
- SPIRIT OF THE YEARS
- HENRY JAMES
- VII
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