# What limits and costs does Lubbock (1921, Ch. IX-XII) name for each step from first-person narration to a dramatized mind, and which are his own hedges?

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1921 criticism by Percy Lubbock (a critic, not a novelist describing his own practice). Lubbock names costs at each stage. First person: loss of the author's freedom, a self-portrait limit ('can only report'), and the claim that no one can fully objectify himself; he also says only that there are 'other ... snares'. Epistolary form (Clarissa): a heavy price in contrivance to keep verisimilitude. Third-person dramatized mind: the method is 'devious and roundabout', shows only the surface of the mind, and keeps the viewpoint character's face from the reader. The general limit is economy: push the method 'as far as the subject can profit by it, but no further', with David Copperfield as a case where dramatizing David's mind would displace the centre. He frames his own claims conditionally ('other things being equal', 'the uses of a narrator are many and various').

1921 criticism by Percy Lubbock (a critic, not a novelist describing his own practice). Lubbock names costs at each stage. First person: loss of the author's freedom, a self-portrait limit ('can only report'), and the claim that no one can fully objectify himself; he also says only that there are 'other ... snares'. Epistolary form (Clarissa): a heavy price in contrivance to keep verisimilitude. Third-person dramatized mind: the method is 'devious and roundabout', shows only the surface of the mind, and keeps the viewpoint character's face from the reader. The general limit is economy: push the method 'as far as the subject can profit by it, but no further', with David Copperfield as a case where dramatizing David's mind would displace the centre. He frames his own claims conditionally ('other things being equal', 'the uses of a narrator are many and various').

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