The Rhetoric of Fiction by Booth Wayne C

Author:Booth, Wayne C. [Booth, Wayne C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780226065595
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010-05-15T00:00:00+00:00

“If anything I have said seems sharp or gossipy, remember that it is Folly and a woman who has spoken.”

—ERASMUS

“I had got my Lady into such a terror about me, that when I smiled it was quite an era of happiness to her; and if I beckoned to her, she would come fawning up to me like a dog. . . . I brought my high-born wife to kiss my hand, to pull off my boots, to fetch and carry for me like a servant, and always to make it a holiday, too, when I was in good humour. I confided perhaps too much in the duration of this disciplined obedience, and forgot that the very hypocrisy which forms a part of it (all timid people are liars in their hearts) may be exerted in a way that may be far from agreeable, in order to deceive you.”

—THACKERAY, Barry Lyndon

“Oh that I could not say, that I have met with more admirers of Lovelace than of Clarissa.”

—SAMUEL RICHARDSON

“Note that it is Edouard who is speaking; it is not Gide.”

—JEAN THOMAS

“A work of art that one has to explain fails in so far, I suppose, of its mission.”

—HENRY JAMES on The Awkward Age

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