A Study of Prose Fiction
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Will the real- istic or romantic type of fiction be best fitted to the needs of the coming democracy ? Per- haps this question, too, cannot be answered, and yet one or two assertions may fairly be made. Democracy insists increasingly upon conformity to ordinary types. It is a pitiless leveler, whether up or down. It is fatal to eccentricities, to extravagant personal char- acteristics, in a word, to a large part of the field from which romantic fiction draws its power. Romantic types of charact...er, as far as they have external marks of peculiarity, are probably destined to extinction. And our sense of wonder at outward things is steadily diminishing. Marvels have grown stale to us. We no longer gape over the telegraph, the telephone, the " wireless ; " we shall gape at the flying machine for a few 356 A STUDY OF PROSE FICTION days at longest. There will be one day no more unexplored corners of the world, no " road to Mandalay. " We shall be forced to turn inward to discover the marvelous ; " Cathay and all its wonders " must be found in us or nowhere.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Will the real- istic or romantic type of fiction be best fitted to the needs of the coming democracy ? Per- haps this question, too, cannot be answered, and yet one or two assertions may fairly be made. Democracy insists increasingly upon conformity to ordinary types. It is a pitiless leveler, whether up or down. It is fatal to eccentricities, to extravagant personal char- acteristics, in a word, to a large part of the field from which romantic fiction draws its power. Romantic types of charact...er, as far as they have external marks of peculiarity, are probably destined to extinction. And our sense of wonder at outward things is steadily diminishing. Marvels have grown stale to us. We no longer gape over the telegraph, the telephone, the " wireless ; " we shall gape at the flying machine for a few 356 A STUDY OF PROSE FICTION days at longest. There will be one day no more unexplored corners of the world, no " road to Mandalay. " We shall be forced to turn inward to discover the marvelous ; " Cathay and all its wonders " must be found in us or nowhere.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Perry Bliss to read onlineMoreLess
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