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H. L. MENCKEN AS A PRINCIPLED CRITIC: THE CASES OF H. G. WELLS AND SINCLAIR LEWIS

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1980
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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
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.
Subject(s): Mencken, H L--(Henry Louis),--1880-1956
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