Category: Journalism/Media/Writing
+1. Purpose of Literary Study.+ The study or reading of literature ordinarily has a threefold purpose,--knowledge, pleasure, and culture. This purpose shows us both the character of the literature which should be read and the manner in which it should be read. As a rule we sho...
+44. Definition.+ We may approximately define poetry as the metrical expression of lofty or beautiful thought, feeling, or action, in imaginative and artistic form. Its metrical...
12. Chapter 12+68. Definition.+ Fiction is that form of prose narrative in which the characters, scenes, and incidents are partly or entirely imaginary. In its highest form it is a sort of pr...
3. Chapter 3+25. Æsthetics.+ The science of beauty in general is called Æsthetics, to which we have to look for some of the principles that are to guide our critical judgment. Unfortunately...
1. Chapter 1+1. Purpose of Literary Study.+ The study or reading of literature ordinarily has a threefold purpose,--knowledge, pleasure, and culture. This purpose shows us both the characte...
6. Chapter 6+39. Definition.+ _Style_ means an author's mode of expression. It is not, as is sometimes supposed, an artificial trick, but a genuine expression of the mind and character. Buf...
2. Chapter 2+16. Personality of the Author.+ Every literary work reveals, to a greater or less degree, the personality of the author. Every literary production may be regarded as the fruita...
4. Chapter 4+28. English Composite.+ The English language is composite, its words being drawn from various sources. The original and principal element is Anglo-Saxon, which prevailed in Eng...
5. Chapter 5+34. Definition.+ A figure of speech is a deviation from the plain and ordinary mode of speaking. Its object is greater effect. Figures originated, perhaps, in a limitation of v...
8. Chapter 8+55. Classification.+ Poetry may be divided into four general types or classes: (1) _didactic_ poetry, which is chiefly concerned with instruction; (2) _lyric_ poetry, which gen...
10. Chapter 10+62. Definition.+ Prose is the ordinary form of discourse. It is distinguished from poetry not only by more commonplace thought but also by the absence of regular metrical struc...
11. Chapter 11+66. Essays.+ An essay is a brief dissertation on some special subject. It aims to present its statements in a clear and interesting manner, and this careful regard for a finish...
9. Chapter 9+59. The Epic.+ The _epic_ is a long poem celebrating in stately verse some important and heroic event of the past. It may be based either on history or tradition, though in our...