ENG 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ernest Hemingway, Iceberg

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 1120
• Professor: Paul Graves

Document Summary

The fable: a brief story that sets forth some moral or pointed statement of truth. The tale: a story that describes interesting or fantastical events, usually without developing character. We allude to the short prose narrative, requiring from a half-hour to one or two hours in its perusal. (cid:863) Poe (cid:272)o(cid:374)ti(cid:374)ues: (cid:862)a skillful literary artist has (cid:272)o(cid:374)stru(cid:272)ted a tale. If his very initial sentence tend not to the outbringing of this effect, then he has failed in his first step. In the whole composition there should be no word written, of which the tendency, direct or indirect, is not to the one pre- established design. And by such means, with such care and skill, a picture is at length painted which leaves in the mind of him who contemplates it with a kindred art, a sense of the fullest satisfaction. The idea of the tale has been presented unblemished, because undisturbed; and this is an end unattainable by the novel.