Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...only story in the issue is "The 'Ace's' Love Affairs." Its greatest merit lies in its length, the article showing great ability in spinning out unimportant details. The plot is original and is well wrought out. The style has a tendency to incoherency, but is picturesque and vigorous. The story contains several good passages, and in spite of its fanlts is very readable and interesting...
...unity of plot is a very different thing, and it is as important now as it ever was. Every critic must agree with Aristotle, and every art says undertake only one thing at a time. Unity of action, simplicity of design, and subordination of detail are requisites in every tragedy of lasting excellence, whose purpose it is to purify through terror and pity the minds...
...these requisites are present in the Medea, which is also comparatively free from the digressions which often mar the work of Euripides. The grouping of the actors on the stage assisted the unity of the piece by directing the attention to the central figure. The plot itself was almost bodily borrowed from the piece of Neophron, but great skill is shown in leading up to the catastrophe. The poet makes us understand the conduct of Medea, although no real sympathy with her unnatural deed is possible. Medea herself was, in the minds of the Athenians, a real and terrible woman...
...idea of "The Dark River" is somewhat better than the execution. The plot seems capable of a more careful treatment than it has received. Yet a word may certainly be said for simplicity of the style...
...Quincy is what one might call a psychical novel. The author seems to have caught the popular contagion among the novelists of the day and accordingly weaves a ??? thread through his story which gives it the appearance of a philosophical lecture rather than a novel. With a fair plot for a foundation he builds up a structure of mind imperishable, philosophy, astride counterpart, transcend ??al photography, ??? voyance, and ???notices, still the bewildered reader wonders whether he is still in his mortal body. Such a book may prove ??entertaining for those interested in psychical research, although the and ??? theories...