10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LITEROSITY»
Discover the use of
literosity in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
literosity and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Conscience And Purpose: Fiction And Social Consciousness in ...
This absence of literosity, if we may coin a word as offensive as the thing,
accounts for an occasional bluntness of phrase, which we have sometimes felt in
Mr. Hardy's work, and for here and there an uncouthness of diction — or call it ...
2
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Mark Twain
In polemical reviews he denounced what he called the literosity and effectism of
neoromantic fiction. Late in his career, however, Howells had come to seem all
too benign an elder. Although he had always signed his work unpretentiously as
...
J.R. LeMaster, James D. Wilson,
2013
3
Grace King: A Southern Destiny
2I Between Monsieur Matte and Balcony Stories Grace King divested her fiction
of what Howells might have called "literosity," as well as of sentimentality. If she
had heard him speak at the dinner given him in New York to celebrate his ...
4
James R. Lowell: Remembered
The deficiencies which characterized his work in his first volume, A Year's Life (
1841), are never entirely absent from his more mature performances: technical
infelicities and irregularities, didacticism, obscurity, and excessive literosity.
Jean Elizabeth Ward,
2009
5
Whitman's & Dickinson's Contemporaries: An Anthology of ...
Critics today regard Lowell's lyric poems as marred by "technical infelicities and
irregularities, didacticism, obscurity, and excessive literosity" (Wortham 127). As a
prosodist, Lowell relied chiefly on traditional verse forms: odes, hymns, ballads, ...
6
Language, Race, and Social Class in Howells's America
He liked "the absence of literosity" in Mary Wilkins's stories, which were as "
unrhetorical" as the works of Turgenev and Bjornson.6 In the introduction to a
1918 edition of Pride and Prejudice Howells noted that in Jane Austen's time
even the ...
7
William Dean Howells: A Writer's Life
He worked hard to rid himself of what he called literosity and to engage the
common reader through the simplicity of spoken language.86 He produced
enormous amounts of literary commentary, taking on British critics, American
critics, indeed ...
8
The Mark Twain Encyclopedia
In polemical reviews he denounced what he called the literosity and effectism of
neoromantic fiction. Late in his career, however, Howells had come to seem all
too benign an elder. Although he had always signed his work unpretentiously as
...
J. R. LeMaster, James Darrell Wilson, Christie Graves Hamric,
1993
9
The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama
... EDWARD HARRIGAN, and CLYDE FITCH: psychological characterization,
natural dialogue without "literosity," and plots that dispensed with the sensational
conventions of melodrama in a conscious attempt to create an illusion of reality
on ...
Gabrielle H. Cody, Evert Sprinchorn,
2007
... of "literosity" in life.10 Scott Dennis has shown (in an article forthcoming this
year in American Literature) that in The World of Chance Howells was actually
writing a parody of "literosity" in literature — his own. Howells' links to
contemporary ...