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Bates Arlo. Talks on the study of literature
Talks on the study of literature
Table of Contents
I. WHAT LITERATURE IS
II. LITERARY EXPRESSION
III. THE STUDY OF LITERATURE
IV. WHY WE STUDY LITERATURE
V. FALSE METHODS
VI. METHODS OF STUDY
VII. THE LANGUAGE OF LITERATURE
VIII. THE INTANGIBLE LANGUAGE
IX. THE CLASSICS
X. THE VALUE OF THE CLASSICS
XI. THE GREATER CLASSICS
XII. CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE
XIII. NEW BOOKS AND OLD
XIV. FICTION
XV. FICTION AND LIFE
XVI. POETRY
XVII. THE TEXTURE OF POETRY
XVIII. POETRY AND LIFE
INDEX
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Arlo Bates
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Yet dies, alas! unsung.
He must be able to sing the song; to make the reader share the throbbing of his heart. All men feel; the artist is he who can by the use of conventions impart his feelings to the world. The musician uses conventions of sound, the painter conventions of color, the sculptor conventions of form, and the writer must employ the means most artificial of all, the conventions of language.
