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Hardcover The Appropriate Form: An Essay on the Novel Book

ISBN: 1472508394

ISBN13: 9781472508393

The Appropriate Form: An Essay on the Novel

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In this substantial essay on the novel (first published in 1964) Barbara Hardy distinguishes three integral aspects of the art of fiction - story, the working-out of a moral problem, and "truthfulness", defined as "the lively representation of reality". From this standpoint she discusses and elucidates some characteristic excellences and limitations of a number of major novels and novelists, including Defoe, Charlotte Bront , George Eliot, Meredith,...

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