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... theme - the actors moving in the appropriate setting of the theatre - the scenery - the song -the music of instruments - the patterned rhythm of the dance - the colour - the co - ordination of speech , song , spectacle and recurrent ...
... theme - the actors moving in the appropriate setting of the theatre - the scenery - the song -the music of instruments - the patterned rhythm of the dance - the colour - the co - ordination of speech , song , spectacle and recurrent ...
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... theme or the content as being un- worthy of art . " If the theme belongs only to the spiritual intuition , the critic could know nothing about it , and could not rebel . Obviously , so far as a man's inner spiritual life is concerned ...
... theme or the content as being un- worthy of art . " If the theme belongs only to the spiritual intuition , the critic could know nothing about it , and could not rebel . Obviously , so far as a man's inner spiritual life is concerned ...
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... theme , the remainder of the problem of creation is how to externalize it , how to make incidents , characters and thoughts fit into the place which the theme demands . At no stage of the operation does intuition cease ; the imagination ...
... theme , the remainder of the problem of creation is how to externalize it , how to make incidents , characters and thoughts fit into the place which the theme demands . At no stage of the operation does intuition cease ; the imagination ...
Contents
Contents CHAPTER PAGE I THE LIGHT FROM HEAVEN II | 11 |
THE FIRST CRITIC | 16 |
THE LITERATURE OF POWER | 22 |
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