Art of Fiction

Dietrich, Richard F.

Harcourt School

The art of fiction

Literature & Fiction

HOLT. RINEHART AND WINSTON

Holt; Rinehart; Winston

A book of plays which include William Shakespeare's Anthony and Cleopatra, Moliere's The Misanthrope and more.

The art of drama

British Drama, 1890-1950: A Critical History (Twayne's Critical History of British Drama)

History & Criticism

Twayne Pub

<p>In the five novels he wrote before he became the great Irish playwright everyone knows, George Bernard Shaw worked out the basic design of his public future, fulfilling his own dictum that "no man is real until he has been transmuted into a work of art."R. F. Dietrich stresses Shaw's psychic transformation from a shy, priggish, inept Shelleyan intellectual to an efficient, extroverted, ironically devilish statesman-poet. Amid the decay and death of the old Victorian father figures, the young genius discovers, as James Joyce did later, that he must commit autogenesis and re-create himself as his own authority figure. In the moral and spiritual emptiness of the modern world, Shaw engendered the inherently moral "Superman," who would triumph over circumstances by being a master rather than a slave of reality.Reflecting contemporary critical theory and advances in Shaw studies, this work is a major overhaul of Dietrich's earlier study of Shaw's transformation, going beyond the merely biographical to examine the psychological and symbolic significance of Shaw's fiction. It will be of interest not only to Shaw scholars but to historians of the novel (the Victorian novel in particular), to historians of culture, and to those interested in the psychology and biography of authors and public figures.</p>

Portrait of the Artist As a Young Superman: A Study of Shaw's Novel

Univ Pr of Florida

Demonstrating how Shaw projected into his novels an attempt to resolve an early crisis of identity and at the same time triumph over a hostile, discouraging world, this study goes beyond the merely biographical to examine the psychological and symbolic significance of Shaw's fiction.

Bernard Shaw's Novels: Portraits of the Artist as Man and Superman (Florida Bernard Shaw)

Dramas & Plays

University Press of Florida

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