Pointed Roofs
Author | : Dorothy M. Richardson |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2018-09-16 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780359094851 |
ISBN-13 | : 0359094856 |
Rating | : 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: From the INTRODUCTION by May Sinclair.I HAVE been asked to write a criticism of the novels of Dorothy Richardson. I do not know whether this essay is or is not going to be a criticism, for so soon as I begin to think what I shall say I find myself criticising criticism, wondering what is the matter with it and what, if anything, can be done to make it better, to make it alive. Only a live criticism can deal appropriately with a live art. And it seems to me that the first step towards life is to throw off the philosophic cant of the nineteenth century. I don't mean that there is no philosophy of Art, or that if there has been there is to be no more of it; I mean that it is absurd to go on talking about realism and idealism, or objective and subjective art, as if the philosophies were sticking where they stood in the eighties....