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Since drama is played out before an audience it must necessarily present a whole or complete action and it is also limited in time by the attention span of the viewers . Because of its private and personal nature as well as the length ...
Since drama is played out before an audience it must necessarily present a whole or complete action and it is also limited in time by the attention span of the viewers . Because of its private and personal nature as well as the length ...
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( 480–406 BC ) , John Milton's Samson Agonistes ( 1671 ) or J. M. Synge's Riders to the Sea ( 1904 ) , where characterisation and action are limited in development so that attention may centre on the working out of an inescapable ...
( 480–406 BC ) , John Milton's Samson Agonistes ( 1671 ) or J. M. Synge's Riders to the Sea ( 1904 ) , where characterisation and action are limited in development so that attention may centre on the working out of an inescapable ...
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Social problems and modes of conduct which limited individuality were very often the subjects of such plays and suggested the name given to the sub - genre . In Henrik Ibsen's Enemy of the People ( 1882 ) , for example , the hero is a ...
Social problems and modes of conduct which limited individuality were very often the subjects of such plays and suggested the name given to the sub - genre . In Henrik Ibsen's Enemy of the People ( 1882 ) , for example , the hero is a ...
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Contents
The Nature of Literature and its Historical Tradition | 1 |
Narrative Fiction and the Printed Word | 39 |
Aesthetic Elements of Narrative Fiction | 48 |
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