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Excerpt from Masks or Faces?: A Study in the Psychology of Acting
The paradoxes of philosophy generally prove, on analysis, to be contradictions in terms; those Of art, on the other hand, are more often truisms turned inside out. This I believe to be a fair description of Diderot''s celebrated Paradoxe sur le It undoubtedly contains a great deal of truth; but in so far as it is true it is not paradoxical. The paradox is brought in, sometimes in the shape of sheer over statement, more Often by means of a little nimble jugglery with ambiguous terms and misleading ana logies. In his arguments from analogy, Diderot does not rise to the fine frenzy of some of his fellow theorists. ''we no more think feeling a necessary ingredient in acting,'' cries one, than we should deem it expedient for a painter, after he had finished a like ness upon the canvas, to represent the heart, liver, brains, and the internal formation, on the back of it.'' Another - this time an American - executes a still more surprising feat of logical. Legerdemain. ''did Rosa asks, with withering emphasis, feel like a horse-fair when she painted her great picture on that subject? Or did Longfellow feel like foot prints on the sands of time when he wrote that line of the Psal?é of se?'' Diderot would no doubt admit that the zeal Of these disciples outruns their discretion; yet they merely burlesque some Of his own arguments.
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The paradoxes of philosophy generally prove, on analysis, to be contradictions in terms; those Of art, on the other hand, are more often truisms turned inside out. This I believe to be a fair description of Diderot''s celebrated Paradoxe sur le It undoubtedly contains a great deal of truth; but in so far as it is true it is not paradoxical. The paradox is brought in, sometimes in the shape of sheer over statement, more Often by means of a little nimble jugglery with ambiguous terms and misleading ana logies. In his arguments from analogy, Diderot does not rise to the fine frenzy of some of his fellow theorists. ''we no more think feeling a necessary ingredient in acting,'' cries one, than we should deem it expedient for a painter, after he had finished a like ness upon the canvas, to represent the heart, liver, brains, and the internal formation, on the back of it.'' Another - this time an American - executes a still more surprising feat of logical. Legerdemain. ''did Rosa asks, with withering emphasis, feel like a horse-fair when she painted her great picture on that subject? Or did Longfellow feel like foot prints on the sands of time when he wrote that line of the Psal?é of se?'' Diderot would no doubt admit that the zeal Of these disciples outruns their discretion; yet they merely burlesque some Of his own arguments.
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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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William Archer
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Page Count - 240
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