There is, to my vision, no authentic, and no really interesting and no beautiful, report of things on the novelist's, the painter's part unless a particular detachment has operated, unless the great stewpot or crucible of the imagination, of the observant... The Quarterly Review - Page 200edited by - 1920Full view - About this book
| Henry James - 1920 - 548 pages
...and truth isn't strong and disinterested. R. Crusoe, eg, isn'ta novel at all. There is, to my vision, no authentic, and no really interesting and no beautiful,...mind in short, has intervened and played its part — and this detachment, this chemical transmutation for the aesthetic, the representational, end is... | |
| Henry James, James Edwin Miller - 1972 - 394 pages
...great stew pot or crucible of the imagination (Letters, 1911, to HG Wells) There is, to my vision, no authentic, and no really interesting and no beautiful,...mind in short, has intervened and played its part — and this detachment, this chemical transmutation for the aesthetic, the representational, end is... | |
| Graham Clarke - 1991 - 452 pages
...situation, and of what might be called centripetal incidents. To put it in another way: the tale must be treated as a stellar system, with all its episodes...report of things on the novelist's, the painter's pan unless a particular detachment has operated. unless the great stewpot or crucible of the imagination,... | |
| Carol Holly - 1995 - 244 pages
...avoided if the novelist is to achieve the proper distance from his material: There is, to my vision, no authentic, and no really interesting and no beautiful,...interpreting mind in short, has intervened and played its part—and this detachment, this chemical transmutation for the aesthetic, the representational, end... | |
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