 My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word to make you hear, to make you feel — it is, before all, to make you see.  The Writer - 31. lappuse1927Pilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
 | John Matthews Manly, Edith Rickert - 1928 - 360 lapas
...influences under which he worked. Among his suggestive statements on his own art are: "My task ... is, by the power of the written word, to make you...make you feel — it is, before all, to make you see. That — and no more, and it is everything." "Literary art must strenuously aspire to the plasticity... | |
 | John Matthews Manly, Edith Rickert - 1928 - 370 lapas
...influences under which he worked. Among his suggestive statements on his own art are: "My task ... is, by the power of the written word, to make you...make you feel — it is, before all, to make you see. That — and no more, and it is everything." "Literary art must strenuously aspire to the plasticity... | |
 | Alfred Charles Ward - 1928 - 260 lapas
...was not, primarily, to edify, console, amuse, improve, encourage, frighten, shock, or charm, but " by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel . . . before all, to make you see." The novelist was to strive for the perfect blending of form and... | |
 | Carl Van Doren, Mark Van Doren - 1925 - 432 lapas
...importance of the five, senses as mediums through which to render his effects. "My task ... is, bythe power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel — it is, before all, to make you see. That — and no more, and it is everything." He strenuously directs his aim to "the plasticity of sculpture,... | |
 | Richard Maxwell - 2002 - 484 lapas
...Joseph Conrad, inventing himself in the preface of 1897 that we now hail, advisedly, as his manifesto: "My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power...you feel — it is, before all, to make you see!" Would that Cruikshank had lived to see those italics, and to see how the neophyte Conrad, no less than... | |
 | Sara Danius - 2002 - 268 lapas
...right. In 1897, Conrad spoke of the purpose of his writing in terms that have long since become famous: "My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power...to make you feel — it is, before all, to make you see."40 Interestingly, Conrad's 1900 novel Lord Jim problematizes the power of Western eyes, of dazzled... | |
 | Robert Mayer - 2002 - 244 lapas
...suggestive in light of film adaptation theory. In 1897 Joseph Conrad claimed that his work as a writer "is by the power of the written word, to make you...make you feel - it is before all, to make you see"; film theorists frequently pair this claim with DW Griffith's 1913 dictum: "The task I'm trying to achieve... | |
 | Cheryl K. Gibbs, Tom Warhover - 2002 - 466 lapas
...writer] Joseph Conrad described for the artist: 'My task which I am trying to achieve,' writes Conrad, 'is, by the power of the written word, to make you...make you feel — it is, before all, to make you see. That — and no more, and it is everything. If I succeed, you shall find there according to your desserts:... | |
 | Belén Vidal Villasur - 2002 - 152 lapas
...the 1 897 Preface to The Nigger of the Narcissus ("my task which I am trying to achieve is, by powers of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel, -it is, before all, to make you see") has been often quoted in relation with DW Griffith's famous declaration of intentions sixteen years... | |
 | Iris Origo - 2002 - 414 lapas
...from Conrad's Preface to The Nigger of the Narcissus. 'My task, which I am trying to achieve, is ... to make you hear, to make you feel; it is, before all, to make you see. That — and no more, and it is everything.' 'That,' said Ruth, 'is one of the greatest things that... | |
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