1st Edition

The Process of Literature An Essay Towards Some Reconsiderations

By Agnes Mure Mackenzie Copyright 1929
288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1929, The Process of Literature is a study of the art of letters considered from a new point of view, as a process of human activity rather than as a series of objects produced by that activity. It examines in detail “the process of literature” from the stimulus of the writer by their experience of life to the reader’s reaction to what has been created as a result of... Read more

Foreword.  1. Prolegomena: Art as a Function of Humanity  2. Prolegomena: Art, the Arts, and the Artist  3. The Writer at Work: A Concrete Example  4. The Writer and His Stimulus  5. The Nature of the Problem of Conveyance  6. The Writer and the Apprehension of His Theme  7. The Writer and the Discovery of His Subject  8. The Writer and the Development of His Subject  9. The Writer and the Conveyance of His Subject  10. The Writer and His Writing  11. The Reader  12. The Effect of the Process.  Appendixes.  Index.

Biography

Agnes Mure Mackenzie (1891–1955) was born at Stornaway, Isle of Lewis, and was a writer and historian. At the time of publication she had been English Assistant at Aberdeen University and English Lecturer at Birkbeck College, University of London. In 1945 she was awarded a CBE for services to Scottish literature and Scottish history.