Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism [First Series]

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

PREFACE

CONTENTS PREFACE I. ON FICTION SENTIMENTAL AMERICA FREE FICTION

I ON FICTION SENTIMENTAL AMERICA

FREE FICTION

A CERTAIN CONDESCENSION TOWARD FICTION

II ON THE AMERICAN TRADITION THE AMERICAN TRADITION

THANKS TO THE ARTISTS

THE FAMILY MAGAZINE

III THE NEW GENERATION THE YOUNG ROMANTICS

PURITANS ALL

THE OLDER GENERATION

A LITERATURE OF PROTEST

BARBARIANS A LA MODE

IV THE REVIEWING OF BOOKS A PROSPECTUS FOR CRITICISM

THE RACE OF REVIEWERS

THE SINS OF REVIEWING

MRS. WHARTON'S "THE AGE OF INNOCENCE"

MR. HERGESHEIMER'S "CYTHEREA"

V PHILISTINES AND DILETTANTE POETRY FOR THE UNPOETICAL

EYE, EAR, AND MIND

OUT WITH THE DILETTANTE

FLAT PROSE

VI MEN AND THEIR BOOKS CONRAD AND MELVILLE

THE NOVELIST OF PITY

AFTER SCENE SPIRIT OF THE YEARS

HENRY JAMES

VII CONCLUSION DEFINING THE INDEFINABLE

Title: Definitions

Author: Henry Seidel Canby

Edition: 10

Language: English

Produced by Ralph Zimmerman, Juliet Sutherland, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team

DEFINITIONS

ESSAYS IN CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM

BY

HENRY SEIDEL CANBY, Ph.D.

Editor of The Literary Review of The New York Evening Post, and a member of the English Department of Yale University.

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