4.0
Aspects of the Novel
The book includes a course of lectures (the annual Clark Lectures) which were delivered by E.M. Forster under the auspices of Trinity College, Cambridge in the spring of 1927. The driving force behind this book, according to the author, is the effort to see through novels and not round them. He discards the weighty ?historical? view with its cumbersome apparatus of ?tendencies?, ?influences? and ?periods? and instead imagines all novelists at work together in a circular room. Appreciating the work, Arnold Bennett says that ?I have never met this kind of perspicacity in literary criticism before. I could quote scores of examples of startling excellence.? The book is full of E.M. Forster?s habitual wit, wisdom and freshness of approach. According to Oliver Stallybrass, it is ?an excellent introduction to its subject, and a useful adjunct to other, more sustained and consistent works of criticism.?
Literary CriticismEuropeanEnglish, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
RELEASED2000
PUBLISHERAtlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Limited
LENGTH141
LANGUAGEEN
Edward Morgan Forster OM, CH, was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy and also the attitudes towards gender and homosexuality in early 20th-century British society. Forster's humanistic impulse toward understanding and sympathy may be aptly summed up in the epigraph to his 1910 novel Howards End: "Only connect".
4.0
Aspects of the Novel
The book includes a course of lectures (the annual Clark Lectures) which were delivered by E.M. Forster under the auspices of Trinity College, Cambridge in the spring of 1927. The driving force behind this book, according to the author, is the effort to see through novels and not round them. He discards the weighty ?historical? view with its cumbersome apparatus of ?tendencies?, ?influences? and ?periods? and instead imagines all novelists at work together in a circular room. Appreciating the work, Arnold Bennett says that ?I have never met this kind of perspicacity in literary criticism before. I could quote scores of examples of startling excellence.? The book is full of E.M. Forster?s habitual wit, wisdom and freshness of approach. According to Oliver Stallybrass, it is ?an excellent introduction to its subject, and a useful adjunct to other, more sustained and consistent works of criticism.?
Literary CriticismEuropeanEnglish, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
RELEASED2000
PUBLISHERAtlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Limited
LENGTH141
LANGUAGEEN
Edward Morgan Forster OM, CH, was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy and also the attitudes towards gender and homosexuality in early 20th-century British society. Forster's humanistic impulse toward understanding and sympathy may be aptly summed up in the epigraph to his 1910 novel Howards End: "Only connect".
