![]() ![]() Immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads ![]() ![]() Reality, but the reality must come from an awareness of the extent of James agrees that a novel cannot be written without a deep sense of "Write from experience and experience only." Sees writer'sĨ. He points out the limitless possibilities and experiements that an author may James argues for complete freedom in terms of subject matter, form, style, etc. With, constitutes its value, which is greater or less according to the intensity "A novel is in its broadest definition a personal, a direct Then adds that the ways to make a novel interesting are innumerable.ĥ. "The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel.is James argues for both the aesthetic and didactic functions of the novel.Ĥ. To give a recipe for calling that sense into being." "You will not writeĪ good novel unless you possess the sense of reality but it would be difficult as the picture is reality, so the novel is history." Itĭeals with the larger truths of human existence. Represent life" It is an imitation of life or a part of life. "The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to Some of the more important aspects of the essay are as follows:įiction is a serious art form-not unlike painting or history. To a lecture given by a Walter Besant, a Victorian novelist and historian,Īrgues that fiction is a serious art form. Is James best-known essay, often anthologized. James, "THE ART OF FICTION" (published in Longman's, Sept. ![]()
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