English Language and Literature ETDs

Publication Date

3-15-1961

Abstract

This study is intended to be a contribution to the aesthetics of the novel. It is motivated by the assumption that the main purpose of criticism of the novel is to help the reader perceive, understand, and evaluate novels and that the main purpose of aesthetics of the novel is to help the critic understand the principles behind perceiving, understanding, and evaluating novels. According to this assumption, the major function of aesthetics, then, is to supply the critic with a consistent theory of art and with a practical method of criticism. In one sense, criticism is applied aesthetics, and aesthetics is theoretical criticism.

Degree Name

English

Level of Degree

Doctoral

Department Name

English

First Committee Member (Chair)

Cecil Vivian Wicker

Second Committee Member

Hoyt Trowbridge

Third Committee Member

George Warren Arms

Fourth Committee Member

Hubert Griggs Alexander

Language

English

Document Type

Dissertation

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