The Newer Spirit: A Sociological Criticism of LiteratureBoni & Liveright, 1925 - 266 pagini |
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action advance American analysis approach aristocratic artist attitude beauty become bourgeois capitalism cause century character conclusion coördinates crime criminal definite desire determined discover drama Dreiser economic effect emotional ERNEST BOYD essay esthetic concepts ethics existence experience expression fact feudalism forced historical human ideas individual industrial inevitable instance J. M. Robertson J. S. Mill judgment knowledge labor less literary literature lives logic majority material conditions matter McGregor means Mencken ment method mind moral mystical national genius nature necessary nineteenth novel object organization period philosophy poetry proletarian psychology qualitative quantitative reaction realism reality result rhythm rise Sam McPherson Sarah Simpson school stimulus scientific sense sentiment Shakespeare Sherwood Anderson significant social environment social evolution society SOCIOLOGICAL CRITICISM stimuli story substance tariat Theodore Dreiser theory things tion towns tragedy trend utopian voluntarist W. D. Howells Winesburg
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Pagina 132 - It is only as a man puts off all foreign support and stands alone that I see him to be strong and to prevail. He is weaker by every recruit to his banner.
Pagina 229 - Of all vulgar modes of escaping from the consideration of the effect of social and moral influences on the human mind, the most vulgar is that of attributing the diversities of conduct and character to inherent natural differences.
Pagina 133 - What a testimony, full of grandeur, full of pity, is borne to the demands of his own nature, by the poor clansman, the poor partisan, who rejoices in the glory of his chief.
Pagina xv - How absolute the knave is ! we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us. By the Lord, Horatio, these three years I have taken note of it ; the age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe.— How long hast thou been a grave-maker? 1 Clo. Of all the days i' the year, I came to't that day that our last King Hamlet o'ercame Fortinbras.
Pagina 140 - Carlyle, in his essay on Goethe, almost uses Goethe's own words, when he says that the critic's first and foremost duty is to make plain to himself "what the poet's aim really and truly was, how the task he had to do stood before his eye, and how far, with such materials as were afforded him, he has fulfilled it.
Pagina xiii - Nor is this rule without the strongest foundation in nature, as the distresses of the mean by no means affect us so strongly as the calamities of the great. When tragedy exhibits to us some great man fallen from his height, and struggling with want and adversity, we feel his situation in the same manner as we suppose he himself must feel, and our pity is increased in proportion to the height from which he fell. On the contrary, we do not so strongly sympathize...
Pagina 258 - All through the physical world runs that unknown content, which must surely be the stuff of our consciousness. Here is a hint of aspects deep within the world of physics, and yet unattainable by the methods of physics.
Pagina 24 - Communism means barbarism, but Socialism means, or wishes to mean, cooperation and community of interests, sympathy, the giving to the hands not so large a share as to the brains, but a larger share than hitherto in the wealth they must combine to produce — means, in short, the practical application of Christianity to life, and has in it the secret of an orderly and benign reconstruction.
Pagina 25 - ... all things alike, common and unclean, without discrimination, miscellaneous as the contents of the great sheet which Peter saw let down from heaven. He carries the principle of republicanism through the whole world of created objects. He will " thread a thread through [his] poems," he tells us, " that no one thing in the universe is inferior to another thing.
Pagina 130 - In all people I see myself, none more and not one a barley-corn less, And the good or bad I say of myself I say of them.