Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...FICTION...
...component to the will of the Commander. Terror is the grand instrument. Terror can work only through assurance that evil will follow any failure of conformity between the will and action willed. Every failure must therefore be punished. Even the most minute must be visited with the heaviest in fiction, and as failure in extreme exactness must frequently happen, the occasion of cruelty must be incessant, therefore (Military) as a part of the necessity of government from the principal of human nature, every government, it may be said, will, if it can take the objects of its desire from every...
...There are," he says to begin with, "nineteen rules governing literary art in the domain of romantic fiction--some say twenty-two. In 'Deerslayer' Cooper violated eighteen of them." Or again, "A work of art? It has no invention; it has no order, system, sequence or result; it has no lifelikeness, no thrill, no stir, no seeming of reality; its characters are confusedly drawn and by their acts and words they prove that they are not the sort of people the author claims that they are; its humor is pathetic; its pathos is funny; its conversations are--oh! indescribable...
...Huck's book is offered as fiction, Tom's as an essay, but the contrast between them is broader than that. For while Huck Anderson is trying to make a work of art, still he is one of the most self-obtrusive of artists and in propounding his way of life he trespasses on sociology; and while Tom is trying to point a social moral (in effect: "Behold, we do, and should, serve youth far more nobly than youth was served yesterday!"), still he implicitly adorns a tale (in effect: "What a wonder that I turned...
...Lockhart. Significance. The volume has as much literary style as a good sales letter. But action is plentiful and the book 'is informative. It will probably furnish to younger businessmen the inspiration that its jacket advertises. Even as a relaxative its merit is far above most fiction of the idly amorous type. Also, it is probably authentic. (The country's leading stove works are now in combine.) That Villain Lockhart was founded on fact, however, is doubtful. His tactics are consistently those of the mucker football player who not only gouges eyes and kicks groins when...