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Which general rules for planning a long, multi-strand story can be drawn from Lubbock's chapters III-IV, and which of them are only demands of Tolstoy's particular subject?

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[Labelled 1921 criticism of one novel; not a tested rule] Lubbock does not number rules. Read across ch. III-IV, seven statements can be sorted. General claims: R1 state the subject in a phrase (about ten words); R2 the best form is the one that makes the most of the subject, so a mismatch means superfluous or missing matter; R3 form depends on the subject; R7 the shape of the story must give the reason for telling it. Conditional or scoped to Tolstoy's fable: R4 a few representative figures set in a big population (ch. IV, 'the nature of the fable'); R5 space and the continuity of life; R6 if time is of the essence the book's form must show it, and the form of time is more than events in order. He gives no thresholds as rules and no outline method; the figures are 'ten words' and descriptive ones about Tolstoy's book.

[Labelled 1921 criticism of one novel; not a tested rule] Lubbock does not number rules. Read across ch. III-IV, seven statements can be sorted. General claims: R1 state the subject in a phrase (about ten words); R2 the best form is the one that makes the most of the subject, so a mismatch means superfluous or missing matter; R3 form depends on the subject; R7 the shape of the story must give the reason for telling it. Conditional or scoped to Tolstoy's fable: R4 a few representative figures set in a big population (ch. IV, 'the nature of the fable'); R5 space and the continuity of life; R6 if time is of the essence the book's form must show it, and the form of time is more than events in order. He gives no thresholds as rules and no outline method; the figures are 'ten words' and descriptive ones about Tolstoy's book. Curator qualifications: R1-R7 is the worker's sorting of unnumbered statements. Evidence status: curator/producer inference or synthesis from the cited sources (code read, not executed, where code is cited); correlated desk review (Claude); not independently reviewed.
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  • [inference] [Labelled 1921 criticism of one novel; not a tested rule] Lubbock does not number rules. Read across ch. III-IV, seven statements can be sorted. General claims: R1 state the subject in a phrase (about ten words); R2 the best form is the one that makes the most of the subject, so a mismatch means superfluous or missing matter; R3 form depends on the subject; R7 the shape of the story must give the reason for telling it. Conditional or scoped to Tolstoy's fable: R4 a few representative figures set in a big population (ch. IV, 'the nature of the fable'); R5 space and the continuity of life; R6 if time is of the essence the book's form must show it, and the form of time is more than events in order. He gives no thresholds as rules and no outline method; the figures are 'ten words' and descriptive ones about Tolstoy's book. · locator: candidate evidence excerpts source

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