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. 1922 Excerpt: ...conformable. I myself, and I suspect my experience to be typical, have had to learn three backgrounds, as distinct, except for the language spoken, as Paris, Gopher Prairie and the Scottish Highlands. While I do not complain to the gods of these things, I maintain that it gives me a disadvantage compared to Mr. ...
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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. 1922 Excerpt: ...conformable. I myself, and I suspect my experience to be typical, have had to learn three backgrounds, as distinct, except for the language spoken, as Paris, Gopher Prairie and the Scottish Highlands. While I do not complain to the gods of these things, I maintain that it gives me a disadvantage compared to Mr. Galsworthy, say, who, however rotten he finds the warp of English society to be, still finds it regularly spaced and competent to sustain the design of any story he may elect to weave. There can be, of course, as many arrangements of the items of individual experience as there are ways in which experience can widely happen. But these are not so many as might be supposed. Varieties of personal adventure are more or less pulled together by the social frame in which they occur. One of the recognized criterions of veracity in a novel is the question, could, or couldn't, the main incident have occurred in that fashion in a given type of society. But such a question can only be asked by people who have acquired the capacity to feci truth in respect to their own environment. It can never be asked by people for whom appreciations of pattern, as it affects the literary expression of experience, have be?n stereotyped to the warp of relationships which are no longer admitted as social determinants. For every novel that the reviewer elects for critical attention, he discards a dozen others of possibly equal workmanship, for no reason but that they deal with patterns that have ceased to have--or perhaps never did have--constructive relation to the society in which we live. Or, in cases where high veracity and perfection of form compel his admiration, as in The Age of Innocence, he makes his point out of the very failure of validity in the background, itself a fra...
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