...H. Houston Peckham Copyright © 1917 by Duke University Press 1917 The Novelty Fallacy in Literature H. Houston Peckham Purdue University We Americans are often accused of being novelty-mad, and although we never inaugurated anything quite so novel as a modern world-war, we must admit...

...Archibald C. Coolidge, Jr. Copyright © 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 Dickens Use of Character as Novelty Archibald C. Coolidge, Jr. Charles Dickens, as a serial novelist, made frequent use of the at­ traction of the new and fresh by treating his readers to the slight excitement which...

... to read the last decade of events in Argentina and Latin America from the perspective of the effects of the movement on the current situation. As this essay attempts to show, this moment is marked by an ambivalent dynamic in which novelties and archaisms stand juxtaposed in a situation best characterized...

...) distinguishing between ideology and propaganda; 2) understanding ideology in relation to current conditions—especially the abundance and novelty of affect, the shrinkage and acceleration of the ideologeme, and the global circuitry of intellectual exchange; 3) emphasizing the affirmative aspects of critique...

...Gavin Walker Since the turn of the twenty-first century, the term communism has returned to the theoretical and historical agenda with a striking force and a surprising novelty. In a wide range of fields of knowledge, the questions of the actuality and the history of the world communist movement...

... have succumbed to the lure of the imagination, according to Johnson, but their productions are consequently not lasting: The ir­ regular combinations of fanciful invention may delight a-while, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest; but the pleasures of sudden wonder...

... poems. It will add some thoughts to the subject, but little else, unless it could be a sense of frustration on the part of the initiated. If there is novelty in the book it lies principally, I fear, in its steady playing off base and artful dodging of energetic analysis and criticism. It is surely...

... postulations cor­ respond, on the aesthetic plane, the rejection of functionality and rationality, the relinquishing of the canon of novelty and the criti­ cal function of the arts, and the eclectic recuperation of earlier aes­ thetic signs. Philosophy s central question perhaps the central question of human...

..., so far as essen­ tials of drama are concerned, can not also be said about the drama of the more full-length. It is undoubtedly true that through all the days since those of Euripides, in whose time interest in novelty for its own sake first entered into the making of drama, the favor-seeking...

... in the Melibeus; he devotes a chapter to the Fabliau Tales, which he calls the rosier stories, and makes the novel point that Chaucer was particularly interested in them as a lit­ erary experiment. But the most striking novelty of the book is its treat­ ment of the Parson s Tale and the Retraction: these he takes...

... or unconsciously, he has adopted Arnold s trick of the repetitive phrase the strategy of disinterestedness, the disposition of disinterestedness, and the conflict between disinterestedness and action, art and practical criticism. This explanation of the conflict in Arnold s mind is not a novelty. Not only...

... to the Debates in the Convention of 1787 130 The South Atlantic Quarterly Part of this novelty stemmed from causes wholly and indigenously American. On the one hand, the thirteen states were similar in their heritage, goals, and institutions. They had recently fought and won, col­ lectively, a war...

... and usable conventions, Eliot sees important dif­ ferences becoming not lessened but more subtle and refined. Lit­ erature would no longer be condemned to a desperate search for originality or senseless novelty. A literature of convention could more economically express a more nuanced, broader view...

... until October 4, the end of the season, having been produced thirty-seven times. It was revived at the English Opera House and at Covent Garden the next two years, though the novelty, Der Freischutz, finally crowded it out, and in 1826 it had another fairly long run, being played thirteen times...

... novelty: . . . contemporary writing aims at an exaggerated novelty, a novelty usually of a trifling kind, which con­ ceals from the uncritical reader a fundamental commonplaceness. The orthodox writer, the traditionalist, according to Eliot, is a man such as Joyce or Baudelaire, or for that matter...

... that ob­ jectivism claims as its glory? Mr. Dembo did not invent the Objectivist manifesto, and is not to blame for its pretensions, but one wonders whether he isn t bemused too much by what may be just another in­ stance of an old idea inflated toward novelty by new language. Fortunately, the objectivist...

... of the beginning in which the poet adopted the proposition that an essential continuity existed between freedom in the Garden of Eden and in the streets of London. Next he turns to questions of truth, novelty, and choice, to the background role Satan plays in the determination of these questions, and most...

... of frustration on the part of the initiated. If there is novelty in the book it lies principally, I fear, in its steady playing off base and artful dodging of energetic analysis and criticism. It is surely not novel in its propositions regarding the antipoetic motive in Swift or in its occasional suggestion...

..., but few if any stick to that subject. Poems on Poetry drifts off onto Swift s satiric bent and his interest in poetry in spite of his anti-poetic stance. The Odes, after remarking a few commonplaces (and, let it be admitted, venturing on novelty in its notice of the flickering of satire in these poems...

... of the beginning in which the poet adopted the proposition that an essential continuity existed between freedom in the Garden of Eden and in the streets of London. Next he turns to questions of truth, novelty, and choice, to the background role Satan plays in the determination of these questions, and most...