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" In the whole composition there should be no word written of which the tendency, direct or indirect, is not to the one preestablished design. "
The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe: The literati - Page 197
by Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Russell Lowell - 1850
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Grammar and Style

Laurie Rozakis - Reference - 2003 - 434 pages
...preconceived effect. If his very initial sentences tend not to the outbringing of this effect, then he has failed in his first step. In the whole composition...indirect, is not to the one pre-established design. . . . Undue brevity is just as exceptional here as in the poem, but undue length is yet more to be...
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Gothic Reflections: Narrative Force in Nineteenth-century Fiction

Peter K. Garrett - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2003 - 260 pages
...preconceived effect. 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...indirect, is not to the one pre-established design. (572) prose" (571) has often been taken as a theoretical manifesto for the modern short story, superior...
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Building Fiction: How to Develop Plot and Structure

Jesse Lee Kercheval - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2003 - 212 pages
...calculated to produce it. 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...which the tendency, direct or indirect, is not to the pre-established design. And by such means, with such care and skill, a picture is at length painted...
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Nor Shall Diamond Die: american studies

Carme Manuel, Paul S. Derrick - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 556 pages
...the notion of unity prescribed by Poe in his review of Hawthorne's stories (Twice-Told Tales, 1842): "in the whole composition there should be no word...which the tendency, direct or indirect, is not to be the one preestablished design" (1994a: 61). This unity of impression that Poe conceived as an essential...
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creative Writing

Laurie Rozakis - Reference - 2004 - 388 pages
...— he then combines such events as may best aid him in establishing this preconceived effect .... In the whole composition there should be no word written,...indirect, is not to the one preestablished design. The key here is "single effect" and "preconceived design." According to Poe, a short story, like a...
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Great Short Works of Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe - Fiction - 2009 - 580 pages
...to the outbringing of this effect, then in his very first step has {the artist] committed a blunder. In the whole composition there should be no word written...which the tendency, direct or indirect, is not to the pre-established design" (my italics). This principle he observed in each and every one of his tales...
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La solitud de la paraula: estudi sobre l'obra narrativa de Jordi Sarsanedas

Francesco Ardolino - Literary Collections - 2004 - 362 pages
...and discusses them in such tone as may best serve him in establishing this preconceived effects [...] In the whole composition there should be no word written of which the tendency, direct o indirect, is not to the one pre-established disegn»; la ressenya de Poe a Nathalien Hawthorne de...
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The Cambridge Introduction to the American Short Story

Martin Scofield - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 239 pages
...preconceived effect. 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...be no word written, of which the tendency, direct and indirect, is not to the one pre-established design. And by such means, with such care and skill,...
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The Scholar's Art: Literary Studies in a Managed World

Jerome McGann - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 252 pages
...mirror" which artists use to enhance the view of the details of a painting. Poe argued that in any composition "there should be no word written of which...the tendency, direct or indirect, is not to the one established design" of the work. Though I've been looking closely at only a small part of Poe's tale,...
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AIDS Narratives

Nicola Birkner - AIDS (Disease) - 2006 - 326 pages
...seinem berühmten Essay über Hawthornes Twice-Told Tales fordert Poe, Kurzgeschichten sollten „with no word written of which the tendency, direct or indirect, is not to the preestablished design"2) verfasst werden. Eben die vom Ende, vom preestablished design her erzeugte...
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