How to Read a Novel Format:Paperback Claudel counted Poetic Art among

Claudel counted Poetic Art among his most valuable writings—despite its relatively lukewarm critical reception—as it investigates the metaphysics of poetry and its unique power to reveal truths about God

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” (Joel 2:12–13)

the annoyingly Efficient Baxter

how infinite in faculty

How to Read a Novel Format:Paperback Claudel counted Poetic Art amongBy Caroline Gordon How to Read a Novel answers two key questions: What is a novel? and How should it be read? Moving effortlessly amongst authors and critics alike, Gordon considers moralism and improperly reading a novel; Dickens, Maritain, and the novel as an art form; complication and resolution in Sophocles and Beatrix Potter; Balzac, Flaubert, and scene composition; Thackeray, Tolstoy, and authorial viewpoint; Hemingway, Faulkner, and narrative