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H. L. MENCKEN AS A PRINCIPLED CRITIC: THE CASES OF H. G. WELLS AND SINCLAIR LEWIS
- Date Issued:
- 1980
- Summary:
- H. L. Mencken consistently employed certain criteria when judging novels. The criteria that he used included plausible characters, whose actions follow logically from given motivations; imaginatively presented descriptions; accurate speech patterns; an author's application of an ironic attitude; sound structure; and the absence of didacticism. These criteria or principles are derived fran Mencken's comments on Joseph Conrad, Theodore Dreiser, and other writers. He applied these principles in judging the novels of H. G. Wells and of Sinclair Lewis up to 1929.
Title: | H. L. MENCKEN AS A PRINCIPLED CRITIC: THE CASES OF H. G. WELLS AND SINCLAIR LEWIS. |
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Name(s): |
HOUSER, JAMES JACKSON. Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor Coyle, William, Thesis advisor |
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Type of Resource: | text | |
Genre: | Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation | |
Issuance: | monographic | |
Date Issued: | 1980 | |
Publisher: | Florida Atlantic University | |
Place of Publication: | Boca Raton, Fla. | |
Physical Form: | application/pdf | |
Extent: | 62 p. | |
Language(s): | English | |
Summary: | H. L. Mencken consistently employed certain criteria when judging novels. The criteria that he used included plausible characters, whose actions follow logically from given motivations; imaginatively presented descriptions; accurate speech patterns; an author's application of an ironic attitude; sound structure; and the absence of didacticism. These criteria or principles are derived fran Mencken's comments on Joseph Conrad, Theodore Dreiser, and other writers. He applied these principles in judging the novels of H. G. Wells and of Sinclair Lewis up to 1929. | |
Identifier: | 14026 (digitool), FADT14026 (IID), fau:10844 (fedora) | |
Collection: | FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection | |
Note(s): |
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1980. |
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Subject(s): | Mencken, H L--(Henry Louis),--1880-1956 | |
Held by: | Florida Atlantic University Libraries | |
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Sublocation: | Digital Library | |
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Host Institution: | FAU | |
Is Part of Series: | Florida Atlantic University Digital Library Collections. |