The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1913-03-06
LIBRARY BULLETIN.
Fiction Study.

Flctlon study.
The University Of Chicago has the
following courses in the study Of flc.
tion. The Chickasha library has the
text Of the novels and also books for
analysis. 9Howell's Heroines of Fic-
tion,' Mathews Aspects Of Fiction, 2
"Burton's Literary Leaders of Ameri.
ca "Lowcrs Literary Essays, "
4saintsburys History OF Criticism
and Warmers Library OF the Worlds
Best Literature"
The Historical Development Of En-
gllsh Fiction.
The historical development Of narra-
tive prose fiction in English is traced
IN outline from the later mediaeval
prose romancers and story tellers to
the beginning Of the twentieth cen
tury. A brief preliminary review Of
the field of fiction is attempted in the
initial lsssons-the qualities shared BY
noyelists and poets, the material com
mon to both, The similarlties In gem
eral construction Of the novel and
drama and throughout, the continen
tai influences are noted, sources In
qured into, and the notifications in
structure aud content Of the novel in
succeeding periods are indicated. IL.
lustrations Of the various aspects and
principles Of rhe art Of fiction are
drawn from the representative works
selected.
y a From Sir Thomas Mallory TO OH
Fer Goldsmith. In this course one
work Of each Of the following authors
is read Mallory Sidney, Lodge,
Greene, Nashe Bupyan, Defoe, Swift,
richardson, Fielding, Smollett, sterne,
and Goldsmith. The character sketch
Of the seventeenth century, as it is
developed by Steele and Addison in
THE Spectator, is briefly dealt with,
as are other literary forms which con.
tributed to, or tended to shape, the
modern novel.
p. From Mrs. Radcliffe and Goodwin
to Stevenson and Kipling. Beginning
with tho reappearanco in England Of
romantic prose fiction-the School Of
Terror or the Gothic" romance, and
the School Of Theoiy -doctrinaire or
revolutionary, one work Of each Of the
following is read: Walpole, Mrs. Rad
cliffe, Goodwin, Fanny Burney, Marie
Edgeworth, Jane Austen, Scott, Coop
er Hawthorne, Lytton, Dickens Thack-
cray Kingsley. Trollope, Reade, Char.
lotte Bronte, George Eliot, Meredith.
Hardy Stevenson and Kipling. The
course concludes with a brief consid
Grafton Of fiction as affected by the
scientific movement OF the nineteenth
century particularly by physiology and
psychology.
Short Story in English and American
Literature.
In connection with brief resume
Of the history 81 tile short story IN
England and America, students viii
read, critically. rumber Of represen.
tative stories by Irving. Hawthorne,
Poe, Dickens, Bret Harte, Henry
James, Page, Cable Stockton, Davis,
Mary E. wilkins, Hardy, Doyle, steg-
enson, Kipling, Hewlett and others.
The critical study will be devoted prin-
cipally to investigation OF the methods
by which effectiveness is secured.
Modern Realistic Fiction. :.
This course IS designed to present
the content and method Of typical
group Of realistic novels. The follow.
ing works, OF their equivalents, viii
be read George Eliot's @Silas Mar
ner.D Hardy's Tess Of the DUrber-
villes,9 Wards Lady Roses Daugh.
ter Howell's "A Modern Instance,
Merediths "The Eogiste Tolstoi'a "An.
ma Kareuiua Barrie's Tommy aud
Grizel"