# According to Lubbock (1921), when should a novelist give a full scene and when summary/survey, and how should the two be switched and placed?

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1921 criticism, drawn mainly from Madame Bovary, Vanity Fair, Anna Karenina and James. Lubbock's closing rule (Ch. XVIII): picture (survey, summary) is preparatory, with command of time and space; the scene gives the 'final stroke', clinching what is already pending, and should be rationed because it is slow, unforeshortened and expensive. Scenes mark the structural joints, summary between them carries the story on and prepares the next scene. The subject dictates the method: wide, crowded stories are pictorial, compact action can be nearly all scenic, stories lodged in one consciousness resist full dramatization. He warns against unneeded or unprepared scenes and against refusing the big scene, and he says the rules for combining modes are not yet worked out.

1921 criticism, drawn mainly from Madame Bovary, Vanity Fair, Anna Karenina and James. Lubbock's closing rule (Ch. XVIII): picture (survey, summary) is preparatory, with command of time and space; the scene gives the 'final stroke', clinching what is already pending, and should be rationed because it is slow, unforeshortened and expensive. Scenes mark the structural joints, summary between them carries the story on and prepares the next scene. The subject dictates the method: wide, crowded stories are pictorial, compact action can be nearly all scenic, stories lodged in one consciousness resist full dramatization. He warns against unneeded or unprepared scenes and against refusing the big scene, and he says the rules for combining modes are not yet worked out.

Curator qualifications: Scene vs summary rules and failure cases located (25/25); inductions from a few novels, not tested rules, as the producer says.

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- [sourced_fact] 1921 criticism, drawn mainly from Madame Bovary, Vanity Fair, Anna Karenina and James. Lubbock's closing rule (Ch. XVIII): picture (survey, summary) is preparatory, with command of time and space; the scene gives the 'final stroke', clinching what is already pending, and should be rationed because it is slow, unforeshortened and expensive. Scenes mark the structural joints, summary between them carries the story on and prepares the next scene. The subject dictates the method: wide, crowded stories are pictorial, compact action can be nearly all scenic, stories lodged in one consciousness resist full dramatization. He warns against unneeded or unprepared scenes and against refusing the big scene, and he says the rules for combining modes are not yet worked out. · locator: candidate evidence excerpts · source: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/18961/pg18961.txt

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