The Writer's Art

Published by Harvard University Press 1924

The Writer's Art

By Those Who Have Practiced It

Compiled by: Rollo Walter Brown

https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674732513

Contents

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
PREFACE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
INTRODUCTION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
I. PRELIMINARIES
TRUTH OF INTERCOURSE Robert Louis Stevenson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
ON THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WRITING AND SPEAKING William Hazlitt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	14
II. PRINCIPLES OF GROWTH
PRINCIPLES OF GROWTH Sidney Thompson Dobell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
THE PRINCIPLES OF SUCCESS IN LITERATURE (II AND IV) George Henry Lewes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	34
THE CARDINAL RULES OF RHETORIC Ralph Waldo Emerson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
THE PRINCIPLE OF ECONOMY APPLIED TO WORDS Herbert Spencer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	90
WORDS THAT LAUGH AND CRY THE NEW YORK SUN Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
THE PHILOSOPHY OF COMPOSITION Edgar Allan Poe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	114
MARGINALIA Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	130
JUDGMENTS OF AUTHORS George Eliot Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	138
SIMPLICITY IN ART Frank Norris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
LANGUAGE AND THE MAN John Ruskin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
THE MORALITY OF THE PROFESSION OF LETTERS Robert Louis Stevenson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	150
ADVICE TO A YOUNG REVIEWER Edward Copleston Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	164
III. FICTIONAL NARRATIVE
WHAT EVERYONE KNOWS ABOUT EXPRESSION AND SOMETHING WHICH ALL THE WORLD DOES NOT KNOW Denis Diderot Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
THE NOVEL. GUY DE MAUPASSANT Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
THE ART OF FICTION Henry James Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	210
A HUMBLE REMONSTRANCE Robert Louis Stevenson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	232
STORY-TELLING George Eliot Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
THE AIM OF FICTIONAL ART Joseph Conrad Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
A PROBLEM IN FICTION Frank Norris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	258
FRANK NORRIS William Makepeace Thackeray Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
IV. THE QUESTION OF STYLE
DISCOURSE ON STYLE Georges-Louis Leclerc De Buffon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
THE SINEWS OF STYLE Henry David Thoreau Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	288
STYLE AS ORGANIC AND AS MECHANIC Thomas De Quincey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295
ON STYLE Arthur Schopenhauer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	302
ON FAMILIAR STYLE William Hazlitt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	323
ON STYLE Arthur Quiller-Couch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	333
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	349

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Copyright year: 1924
Edition: Reprint 2013
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Front matter: 15
- Main content: 357
Keywords: Authorship.; Style, Literary.

eBook

Published: October 1, 2013
ISBN: 9780674732513

Hardcover

Published: February 5, 1924
ISBN: 9780674730434