Principles and Methods of Literary Criticism
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ISBN13: 9781150117299
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898. Excerpt: ... XX THE CRITIC'S AMBITIONS "Talent is rare, vanity credulous, and glory seductive." VlLLEMAIN. THERE is no good reason why a critic should not have his ambitions as well as other men. The main consideration is that they be clearly understood in their nature and limits. This, of course, depends fhapedby upon the view each critic takes of view or his occupation, its methods, aims, and possibilities. If this view be fair and just, ambition will be to him what Sir Francis Bacon defined it to be, " like a humour that maketh men active, earnest, full of alacrity, and stirring." But so much depends upon the view. There has at times been a general impression that working critics as a class have not always had an exalted opinion of their vocation, that they have too commonly regarded it as a subordinate department in literature and something which could be committed to apprentices. Someone has facetiously termed it "a department of letters which, of course, requires no output but the power to read and write." How far occasion for such remark has been given in the actual turning off of book notices and reviews must be left to editors to conjecture. The best of them doubtless have notions of what might be done if there were nothing else to do in a newspaper office. The critic himself, however, is at liberty to have his ideals, and to work toward them amidst the pressure of various obligations, as every other man must whose ambitions reach beyond his daily task. If the critic's ambitions are shaped by his conceptions of the art, it would not be strange to find these aspirations somewhat, r Therefore various in character. The one paral-various lei which is nearest is the diversity of -mbitionsambitions which are possible in the pursuit of an education in a...
| ISBN-13 | 9781150117299 |
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| ISBN-10 | 115011729X |
| Weight | 0.60 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.41 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 178 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-12-01 |
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