This page has been validated.
OUTLINE
293
| 2) | Appeal to the associative imagination | 46 | |||||
| a) | Appeal to fancy | 46 | |||||
| 3) | Appeal to the penetrative imagination | 47 | |||||
| 4) | Appeal to the contemplative imagination | 47 | |||||
| a) | Philosophy in the fairy tales | 48 | |||||
| b) | Proverbs in the fairy tales | 50 | |||||
| c) | Relation of the contemplative imagination to science | 52 | |||||
| c. | A basis of truth, or appeal to the intellect | 53 | |||||
| 1) | The truth must be idealistic | 53 | |||||
| a) | It may be realistic | 53 | |||||
| b) | It may be romantic | 53 | |||||
| 2) | Value of the appeal of literature to the intellect | 53 | |||||
| d. | A form more or less perfect | 54 | |||||
| 1) | The elements of form: words, sentences, paragraphs, and wholes | 58 | |||||
| a) | Words, the medium of language must have two powers | 54 | |||||
| (1) | Denotation, to name what they mean | 54 | |||||
| (2) | Connotation, to suggest what they imply | 54 | |||||
| b) | Suggestive power of words illustrated | 55 | |||||
| 2) | General qualities characteristic of perfect form | 57 | |||||
| a) | Precision or clearness | 57 | |||||
| (1) | Precision demands that words have denotation | 57 | |||||
| (2) | Precision appeals to the intellect | 57 | |||||
| b) | Energy or force | 57 | |||||
| (1) | Energy demands that words have connotation | 58 | |||||
| (2) | Energy appeals to the emotions and holds the attention | 58 | |||||
| c) | Delicacy or emotional harmony | 58 | |||||
| (1) | Delicacy demands that words have the power of adaptation | 58 | |||||
| (2) | Delicacy demands that form appeal to the aesthetic sense | 58 | |||||
