The Literary Criticism Of Frank Norris
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The Literary Criticism Of Frank Norris
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Author : Donald Pizer
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2014-11-06
The Literary Criticism Of Frank Norris written by Donald Pizer and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
All of American author Frank Norris’s significant critical writings have been compiled in this book, including his articles for the San Francisco Wave during 1896–1897 and selections from his “Weekly Letter” column for the Chicago American in 1901. Essays from these two previously unexploited sources, comprising almost half the book, reveal certain areas of Norris’s thought which heretofore had been overlooked by scholars. This book was compiled in order to clarify Frank Norris’s literary creed. When Donald Pizer began to read Norris’s uncollected critical articles, he observed concepts which had been unnoted or misunderstood by his critics. Crediting this to the inadequate representation of Norris’s ideas in the posthumous The Responsibilities of the Novelist (1903), Pizer recognized the need for an interpretive and complete edition of Norris’s critical writings. This volume thus fills a noticeable gap in the field of American literary criticism. By the time of his death in 1902 Norris had a closed system of critical ideas. This core of ideas, however, is only peripherally related to the conventional concept of literary naturalism, which perhaps explains why critics have gone astray trying to find Zolaesque ideas in Norris’s criticism. Norris’s central idea, around which he built an aesthetic of the novel, was that the best novel combines an intensely primitivistic subject matter and theme with a highly sophisticated form. His paradox of sophisticated primitivism clarifies the vital link between the fiction produced in the 1890s and that written by Hemingway, Faulkner, and Steinbeck. Norris’s essays deal with many of the literary themes which preoccupy modern critical theorists. His range of subjects includes the form and function of the novel; definitions of naturalism, realism, and romanticism; and the problem of what constitutes an American novel. His interpretation of commonplace events, his comments on prominent figures of his day, and his parodies of writers such as Bret Harte, Stephen Crane, and Rudyard Kipling are characterized by ingenuity and perception. Through these writings the personality of a man with well-defined convictions and the ability to expound them provocatively comes into sharp focus. In a general introduction Pizer summarizes Norris’s critical position and surveys his career as literary critic. This introduction and the interpretative introductions preceding each section constitute an illuminating essay on the literary temper of the period and provide a new insight into Norris’ craft and his literary philosophy.
The Literary Criticism Of Frank Norris
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Author : Frank Norris
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
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The Literary Criticism Of Frank Norris Edited By Donald Pizer
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Author : Frank Norris
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1964
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Complete Works Of Frank Norris
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Author : Frank Norris
language : en
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Release Date : 2023-07-18
Complete Works Of Frank Norris written by Frank Norris and has been published by Legare Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-18 with categories.
This volume collects the complete works of American author Frank Norris, best known for his novels "McTeague" and "The Octopus." In addition to his fiction, Norris wrote extensively on the responsibilities of the novelist, including the need to accurately portray society and the harsh realities of life. This volume also includes a detailed bibliography of Norris's works, making it a must-have for scholars and fans of American literature alike. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Complete Works Of Frank Norris Responsibilities Of The Novelist
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Author : Frank Norris
language : en
Publisher: Freeman Press
Release Date : 2008-08
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The Complete Works Of Frank Norris - Responsibilities Of The Novelist. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Vandover And The Brute
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Author : Frank Norris
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 1978-01-01
Vandover And The Brute written by Frank Norris and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978-01-01 with Literary Collections categories.
Posthumously published in 1914, Vandover and the Brute is probably Frank Norris's first complete novel, much of it written when he was a student at Harvard in 1894-1895. The subject matter made it unacceptable to turn-of-the-century taste, and when the book finally did appear one reviewer declared that "it ought to have been issued for private circulation only" (Bookman). The setting of the story is San Francisco in the 1890s. Vandover, fresh out of college and the son of a wealthy owner of slum properties, has dreams of being an artist but lacks the discipline to fulfill them. His seduction of a young woman results in her suicide and the death of his own father. Cheated by false friends of part of his patrimony, Vandover gambles away the rest. Finally, as Warren French writes in Frank Norris, "he becomes a bum reduced to cleaning the offal from the slum houses he once owned. His degeneration has also been marked by attacks of lycanthropy, during which he pads around on all fours, naked, howling like a wolf." Although present-day critics would agree with one of the few favorable early judgments?that "it is a first novel of which any writer might be proud" (Boston Transcript)?Vandover and the Brute has yet to be established in its proper place in American fiction. Warren French's introduction points out that while the novel is usually considered as an early, unrevised example of American naturalism, it needs to be seen now as a principal example of a "decadent" literature that flourished briefly in the United States in the 1890s as the influence of the genteel tradition was collapsing. It presents the portrait of an artistic young man comparable to the portrait of a young matron in Kate Chopin's now much discussed novel The Awakening.
Frank Norris Of The Wave
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Author : Frank Norris
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
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The Responsibiilities Of The Novelists
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Author : Frank Norris
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-10-15
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The late Frank Norris's literary essays, marshaled handsomely between covers, under the title "The Responsibilities of the Novelist," impress one, on the first browsing, with a sense of vague regret. Here is something that should not have been; yet one knows not at first exactly what nor why. But, as you read, the feeling grows that this book would never have appeared had the author lived to decide the question for himself. The essays are good-amazingly good, some of them; their sanity never fails; their simplicity and force lack nothing; they are fresh, leisurely, progressive, healthy. But they are young and uneven. Norris was a man who grew fast. There are five years between some of these essays, written, according to the bibliography in the back of the volume, only a few months apart. The book's entire contents was dashed off within two years, and in that time Norris grew ten. We venture the prediction that none of the essays in the present volume would have passed muster of this growing author for admission to his ranks of books. Already, had he lived till now, would the best and latest of them have seemed trivial and partial in his eyes. And yet, considered apart from the personality and rapid development of their writer, these essays are profitable. If they solve no problems, if they open no new fields, if they add nothing to the sum or the statement of truth, they at least restate familiar facts and conditions with singular clearness and force, delightful freshness, unerring selection, and complete sanity. And not the least of the pleasure they give is the melancholy contemplation of a mind that, had it survived, would inevitably have been in front of the literary movement the beginnings of which are already, in the opinion of many, at hand. We quote, as an example of Frank Norris's character and quality as a man of letters, the final paragraphs of his essay on the responsibilities of the novelist: "The Pulpit, the Press, and the Novel-these indisputably are the great moulders of public morals to-day. But the Pulpit speaks but once a week; the Press is read with lightning haste, and the morning news is waste-paper by noon. But the Novel goes into the home to stay. It is read word for word; is talked about, discussed; its influence penetrates every chink and corner of the family. "Yet novelists are not found wanting who write for money. I do not think this is an unfounded accusation. I do not think it asking too much of credulity. This would not matter if they wrote the Truth. But these gentlemen who are 'in literature for their own pocket every time' have discovered that for the moment the People have confounded the Wrong with the Right, and prefer that which is a lie to that which is true. 'Very well, then, ' say these gentlemen. 'If they want a lie, they shall have it'; and they give the People a lie in return for royalties.... -The Book Buyer: A Monthly Review of American and Foreign Literature, Volume 27
A Novelist In The Making
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Author : Frank Norris
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1970
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Blix is an autobiographical novel in which the main character Condy Rivers gets his story ideas from Captain Jack. An excerpt reads, "Bessemer was one of those men who seem entirely disassociated from their families. Only on rare and intense occasions did his paternal spirit or instincts assert themselves. At table he talked but little. Though devotedly fond of his eldest daughter, she was a puzzle and a stranger to him. His interests and hers were absolutely dissimilar. The children he seldom spoke to but to reprove; while Howard, the son, the ten-year-old and terrible infant of the household, he always referred to as "that boy."
The Responsibilities Of The Novelist
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Author : Frank Norris
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-10-19
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Benjamin Franklin Norris, Jr. (March 5, 1870 - October 25, 1902) was an American journalist and sometime novelist during the Progressive Era, whose fiction was predominantly in the naturalist genre.His notable works include McTeague (1899), The Octopus: A Story of California (1901), and The Pit (1903).Frank Norris was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1870. His father, Benjamin, was a self-made Chicago businessman and his mother, Gertrude Glorvina Doggett, had a stage career. In 1884 the family moved to San Francisco where Benjamin went into real estate. In 1887, after the death of his brother and a brief stay in London, young Norris went to Academie Julian in Paris where he studied painting for two years and was exposed to the naturalist novels of Emile Zola.[7][8] Between 1890 and 1894 he attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he became acquainted with the ideas of human evolution of Darwin and Spencer that are reflected in his later writings. His stories appeared in the undergraduate magazine at Berkeley and in the San Francisco Wave. After his parents' divorce he went east and spent a year in the English Department of Harvard University. There he met Lewis E. Gates, who encouraged his writing. He worked as a news correspondent in South Africa (1895-96) for the San Francisco Chronicle, and then as editorial assistant for the San Francisco Wave (1896-97). He worked for McClure's Magazine as a war correspondent in Cuba during the Spanish-American War in 1898. He joined the New York City publishing firm of Doubleday & Page in 1899. During his time at the University of California, Berkeley, Norris was a brother in the Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta, and was an originator of the Skull & Keys society.Because of his involvement with a prank during the Class Day Exercises in 1893, the annual alumni dinner held by each Phi Gamma Delta chapter still bears his name.In 1900 Frank Norris married Jeanette Black. They had a child in 1901. Norris died on October 25, 1902, of peritonitis from a ruptured appendix in San Francisco. This left The Epic of the Wheat trilogy unfinished.He was only 32. He is buried in Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland, California.Charles Gilman Norris, the author's younger brother, became a well regarded novelist and editor. C.G. Norris was also the husband of the prolific novelist Kathleen Norris. The Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley, houses the archives of all three writers."