6/21/2023 0 Comments Em forster aspects of novelAspects of the Novel is informed not merely by the living experience of Forster’s having written novels throughout his adult life but, more importantly, by judgment, perspicacity, and erudition. While acknowledging the importance of Percy Lubbock’s The Craft of Fiction (1921) in extending the James aesthetic, the brilliance of Virginia Woolf’s insights in her essays in The Common Reader (1925) and elsewhere, and the usefulness of Edwin Muir’s The Structure of the Novel (1928), I believe that Forster’s book is the one of these 1920s books on the novel to which we most frequently return to learn about how novels mean and why they matter to us. Moreover, today, it still addresses the crucial questions that concern us about form, point of view, and the relationship between art and life. Forster’s study helped define the values and questions with which we have approached novels for the past several decades. Forster’s Aspects of the Novel (1927) remains a cornerstone of Anglo-American novel criticism.
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