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INTRODUCTION
ART PRINCIPLES IN LITERATURE
PART FIRST
ART IN THE APPRECIATION OF LITERATURE
ART AND THE INDIVIDUAL
Talking to oneself in art--Chaos in religion, morals and art from unchecked individualism--Altruism a better principle--Responsibility inevitable--Responsibility a help, no hindrance to the artist--Greek drama; Italian Madonnas; Horace.
ART AND THE INDIVIDUAL
Modern literature and art and a sense of humor--Fiction, biographical and pathological--New poetry shallow--Riot of emotionalism--Novel of satire, European continental type originating in low comedy--Novel of Scott, epic in origin--Nature, experience, wisdom, the remedies of individualism.
ART AND HUMAN NATURE
Art movements begin in nature--Art is social--Permanence of literature due to universal appeal--The camera and the canvas--Personality and individuality--Shock of nerves not the mental thrill of art.
ART AND HUMAN NATURE
Real cake of soap on a painted wave--Art a distinct world from reality--Motivation, not through logical discussion but through probable incident--Painting in the cake of soap--Realism depressing because of cynic moralizing--Evil in Shakespeare and Homer, relieved by pathos and humor, not depressing.
ART AND THE DIVINE
Rich tombs of the past testify to belief in immortality--Cro-Magnon cave pictures probably religious--Earliest art of all nations due to religion--Dancing, song, music, sculpture, architecture, drama, epic--Gothic cathedral of religious middle-ages, synthesis of all arts.
ART AND THE DIVINE
ART AND THE DIVINE
The theomorphism of man in the threefold tendency of science, morality and art--Religion, a virtue; art, a function of perceptions--Ruskin's school of the religion of beauty--Moralizing not a function of art--Estheticism neither asceticism nor sensualism--Evil in art to be represented as evil--Evil to be a rationalized element--Contemporary evil excites feelings of reality--Art and religion ennobling--Art and religion purifying--Creation and disinterestedness most divine elements in art.
THE VISCERAL TEST OF BEAUTY
The critic's equipment--Defective philosophy of some modern critics, Mencken, Murry, Cohen--Ugly in art and its subdual--Esthetic feeling not concupiscence--Disinterestedness of beauty excludes sensuality of appetites--Visceral reactions not from beauty 48
PART SECOND
ART IN THE TEACHING OF LITERATURE
LOOKING FORWARD IN LITERATURE
Literature taught for use in Greece, Rome, and elsewhere--Science and history always changing; literature lasting--Object of literature in university--True humanism, equipping man's faculties with art--Every school subject teaches its like--Correlations of literature and creation--Contemporary literature not suitable--Scientific study partly; artistic study is wholly satisfying 57
UNIFYING EDUCATION THROUGH LITERATURE
Necessity of unity--In university through profession--No unity in college electivism--Unity impaired by departments and by specializing--Unity in France, Germany and England--Departmental system destroying the art appeal of literature--Science through knowing; art through doing--Recent mental tests accentuate expression and language--General education through art of literature 64
THE INTERESTING TEACHER OF LITERATURE
Spread of science--System and eliminating of personality--Dissertations for the doctorate--Scholarly means encyclopedic--The impersonal lecturer--Justin McCarthy's teacher and his methods--Not scientific specialization, but exercise of mental powers--Formulas and personality--Another interesting teacher--Literature educates equally with science--The ideal 70
EDUCATING THE EMOTIONS
Life full of emotions--Emotions intense in our crowded civilization--Morale, organized emotion--Emotions neglected in education--Education of facts dominating schools--Twofold nature of emotions--Emotions from concrete imagining--Kindled by contact--Literature embodiment of emotions--Emotions developed by self-expression and controlled by exercise 83
KEEP THE CLASSICS BUT TEACH THEM
Classics to be kept but taught differently--Former help of translation--Literature overwhelmed by erudition--Germany, France, England, America--True use of erudition--Natural sciences change; art endures--Reproduction, the soul of literary teaching--Method of training--Modern literatures not yet able to supplant ancient literatures 91
THE VITALIZER OF THE WORLD
Literary renaissances associated with Greek literature--Revivals through Irish monks--Spain, France, Scholasticism--Germany with Wolf, Winckelmann, Lessing--England under Queen Anne and Queen Victoria--Youth of civilization in Greece 100
TRUE PRINCIPLES OF HOMERIC CRITICISM
Story of Phidias' statue and Homer--Homer tested by art--Flaws in material--Absorption in immediate effects--Told story different from story read--Outline of a study on a broad scale--Variety, alternation, growth in Homeric battling--Homeric palace, the place of Homer's recital 106
THE CHILD-TEST OF LITERATURE
Child-test in religion and morals, in the Bible--Homer's mother and child--Hector and Andromache--Child in later literature rare--Latin writers--Conventionality instead of Homeric naturalness 114
THE CHRIST-CHILD TEST OF LITERATURE
Christ-Child in art--Christmas and the drama--In Ireland--Medieval and Renaissance writers--Milton's war-like child--Wordsworth, Shelley, Tennyson, Longfellow--Return of naturalness in Stevenson, Carroll and others--Faith and its effects in Thompson and Tabb 119
GREEK SPEAKS FOR ITSELF
Mosaic of etymology--Ecclesiastical sphere--Diet, posies and programs--Geography, zoology, politics--Pharmacies and surgery--Schools and composition--Apology and epitaph 129
NOTE: THE NATURE OF ESTHETIC ENJOYMENT
A FORWARD-LOOKING LESSON IN LITERATURE 159
ART PRINCIPLES IN LITERATURE
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