# What do 'picture', 'drama', 'scenic' and 'panoramic' mean in Lubbock's The Craft of Fiction (1921), and are they one distinction or two?

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1921 literary criticism. In Chapter V Lubbock uses two separate pairs: 'scenic' versus 'panoramic' (one particular occasion versus a survey of a stretch of time from a height) and 'pictorial' versus 'dramatic' (events reflected in a mind or narrator versus facts placed directly before the reader, as on a stage). In Chapter VIII, crediting Henry James, he sets picture against drama as the main antithesis and widens 'picture' to include the panoramic manner. So 'picture = panoramic summary, drama = scene' is a fair first approximation of Chapter VIII but not of Chapter V, where a scene can still be pictorial. Lubbock himself calls the vocabulary uncertain and says pure drama is not fully possible in a novel.

1921 literary criticism. In Chapter V Lubbock uses two separate pairs: 'scenic' versus 'panoramic' (one particular occasion versus a survey of a stretch of time from a height) and 'pictorial' versus 'dramatic' (events reflected in a mind or narrator versus facts placed directly before the reader, as on a stage). In Chapter VIII, crediting Henry James, he sets picture against drama as the main antithesis and widens 'picture' to include the panoramic manner. So 'picture = panoramic summary, drama = scene' is a fair first approximation of Chapter VIII but not of Chapter V, where a scene can still be pictorial. Lubbock himself calls the vocabulary uncertain and says pure drama is not fully possible in a novel.

Curator qualifications: Two distinct pairs (scenic/panoramic; pictorial/dramatic) and the Chapter VIII merged antithesis located (16/16).

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- [sourced_fact] 1921 literary criticism. In Chapter V Lubbock uses two separate pairs: 'scenic' versus 'panoramic' (one particular occasion versus a survey of a stretch of time from a height) and 'pictorial' versus 'dramatic' (events reflected in a mind or narrator versus facts placed directly before the reader, as on a stage). In Chapter VIII, crediting Henry James, he sets picture against drama as the main antithesis and widens 'picture' to include the panoramic manner. So 'picture = panoramic summary, drama = scene' is a fair first approximation of Chapter VIII but not of Chapter V, where a scene can still be pictorial. Lubbock himself calls the vocabulary uncertain and says pure drama is not fully possible in a novel. · locator: candidate evidence excerpts · source: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/18961/pg18961.txt

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