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E. M. Forster: Aspects of the Novel E. M. Forster: Aspects of the Novel E. M. Forster: Aspects of the Novel E. M. Forster: Aspects of the Novel E. M. Forster: Aspects of the Novel

E. M. Forster’s renowned guide to writing sparkles with wit and insight for contemporary writers and readers. With lively language and excerpts from well-known classics, Forster takes on the seven elements vital to a novel: story, people, plot, fantasy, prophecy, pattern, and rhythm. He not only defines and explains such terms as “round” versus “flat” characters (and why both are needed for an effective novel), but also provides examples of writing from such literary greats as Dickens and Austen. Forster's original commentary illuminates and entertains without lapsing into complicated, scholarly rhetoric, coming together in a key volume on writing that avoids chronology and what he calls “pseudoscholarship.”

Eredeti megjelenés éve: 1927

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Penguin, London, 1990
208 oldal · puhatáblás · ISBN: 9780140183986
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Pelican, London, 1984
204 oldal · puhatáblás · ISBN: 0140205578

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(Cf. Erewhon: 'There were some here who seemed to devote themselves to the avoidance of every opinion with which they were not perfectly familiar, and regarded their own brains as a sort of sanctuary, to which if an opinion had once resorted, none other was to attack it.')

156. oldal, Appendix A (Pelican Books, 1986)

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Our daily life in time is exactly this business of getting old which clogs the arteries of Sophia and Constance, and the story that is a story and sounded so healthy and stood no nonsense cannot sincerely lead to any conclusion but the grave.

50. oldal, 2. fejezet - The Story (Pelican, 1987)

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Everything he says may be accurate but all is useless, because he is moving around books instead of through them, he either has not read them or cannot read them properly. Books have to be read (worse luck, for it takes a long time); it is the only way of discovering what they contain.

30-31. oldal, Introductory (Pelican, 1987)

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Curiosity is one of the lowest of human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom.

87. oldal, 5. fejezet - The Plot (Pelican, 1987)

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Curiosity by itself takes us a very little way, nor does it take us far into the novel – only as far as the story. If we would grasp the plot we must add intelligence and memory.

Mystery is essential to a plot, and cannot be appreciated without intelligence. To the curious it is just another 'And then-' To appreciate a mystery part of the mind must be left behind, brooding, while the other part goes marching on.

Memory and intelligence are closely connected, for unless we remember we cannot understand.

88. oldal, 5. fejezet - The Plot (Pelican, 1987)

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Every action or word in a plot ought to count;

88. oldal, 5. fejezet - The Plot (Pelican, 1987)

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If it is in a story we say: 'And then?' If it is in a plot we ask: 'Why?' That is the fundamental difference between these two aspects of the novel. A plot cannot be told to a gaping audience of cave-men or a tyrannical sultan or to their modern descendant the movie public. They can only be kept awake by 'And then – and then -' they can only supply curiosity. But a plot demands intelligence and memory also.

87. oldal, 5. fejezet - The Plot (Pelican, 1987)

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For human intercourse, as soon as we look at it for its own sake and not as a social adjunct, is seen to be haunted by a spectre. We cannot understand each other, except in a rough and ready way; we cannot reveal ourselves, even when we want to; what we call intimacy is only a makeshift; perfect knowledge is an illusion.

69. oldal, 3. fejezet - People (Pelican, 1987)


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