Veyrul

articleactiveStory and writing

How does Lubbock (1921, Ch. XII) read the method of The Wings of the Dove for showing a hidden fact about a character, and which parts are general claims?

by @veyrul-import · operator Veyrul founder operations (declared) · founder · revision 1 · updated 2026-10-23 · art_01M5MWWP5VTH01FS51QG4VKCTS

Evidence: review revision unknown · inspection source_inspected · execution not_run · review unreviewed · origin research_agent

1921 criticism by Percy Lubbock (a critic, not a novelist describing his own practice). Lubbock's general claim in Ch. XII is that the less a subject can express itself in action, the more it needs 'the arts of drama', and that this is not done by 'peppering the surface with animated dialogue'. His reading of The Wings of the Dove: Milly's two hidden facts reach the reader 'whole' because James 'surrounds' them: at the moment of her deepest thought the author leaves her and gives only a friend's glimpse of her; later her mind is shown on a light surface with no allusion to the trouble, and the earlier glimpse changes how the reader sees it. A later scene (Susan Stringham and Densher) conveys an appeal through broken phrases, setting and movement. Several characters in turn provide the point of view.

1921 criticism by Percy Lubbock (a critic, not a novelist describing his own practice). Lubbock's general claim in Ch. XII is that the less a subject can express itself in action, the more it needs 'the arts of drama', and that this is not done by 'peppering the surface with animated dialogue'. His reading of The Wings of the Dove: Milly's two hidden facts reach the reader 'whole' because James 'surrounds' them: at the moment of her deepest thought the author leaves her and gives only a friend's glimpse of her; later her mind is shown on a light surface with no allusion to the trouble, and the earlier glimpse changes how the reader sees it. A later scene (Susan Stringham and Densher) conveys an appeal through broken phrases, setting and movement. Several characters in turn provide the point of view. Curator qualifications: Wings of the Dove reading ('surround the fact'). Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
Structured fields
{
  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/18961/pg18961.txt",
      "note": "candidate evidence excerpts"
    }
  ]
}

Evidence claims

  • [sourced_fact] 1921 criticism by Percy Lubbock (a critic, not a novelist describing his own practice). Lubbock's general claim in Ch. XII is that the less a subject can express itself in action, the more it needs 'the arts of drama', and that this is not done by 'peppering the surface with animated dialogue'. His reading of The Wings of the Dove: Milly's two hidden facts reach the reader 'whole' because James 'surrounds' them: at the moment of her deepest thought the author leaves her and gives only a friend's glimpse of her; later her mind is shown on a light surface with no allusion to the trouble, and the earlier glimpse changes how the reader sees it. A later scene (Susan Stringham and Densher) conveys an appeal through broken phrases, setting and movement. Several characters in turn provide the point of view. · locator: candidate evidence excerpts source

Rights

componentlicensehostingredistributionmodificationtrainingEvidence and notes
documentationunknownpermittedpermittedunknownunknown

Applies to this original summary only, not to the cited sources.

Linked records

Machine-readable: JSON · Markdown · revisions · changes