achievement of criticism Flashcards
E.s. Dallas
how [criticism] can be raised to the dignity of a science
artist words are ‘electirc. we feel those words’.
power of appealing to ‘the absent mind, as opposed to the present mind… to which alone science appeals’
Collins teach to read
the future of english fiction may rest with this Unknown public, which is now waiting to be taught the difference between a good book and a bad one
G. H LEwes
‘we critics are greatly to blame.’
failing to ‘keep up the standards of public taste’.
collins the mystery man looking for readers
reads like a mystery story. using evidence of ‘penny-journals’ to detect the nature and composition of the ‘mass audience of at least three-million’.
‘an immense public has been discovred’
‘what do we know about this enormous outlawed majorit?… absolutely nothing. (patronisingly states that judging by the novels they read, they cant read very well…) saying ‘outlawed’, he calls for their inclusion, and for them to be disciplined to appreciate superior forms of art.
nicholas dames
dallas offers ‘a post-heroic culture of mass audience’
‘a novel is a literary machine appropriate for the conditions of modern consumption.
