Bernard Shaw's novels : portraits of the artist as man and superman /
In the five novels he wrote before he became the great Irish playwright everyone knows, George Bernard Shaw worked out the basic design of his public future, fulfilling his own dictum that "no man is real until he has been transmuted into a work of art." R.F. Dietrich stresses Shaw's...
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Gainesville :
University Press of Florida,
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Introduction to the Novels. A History of the Novels. The Novels as Self-Portraiture. The Frame of the Portrait. A Note on Methodology
- pt. 2. The Art of the Novels, Or, The Maturity of Immaturity. Portrait of the Artist as an Old Reviser. Portrait of the Artist as an Old Critic. A Relatively Mature Portrait of a Decidedly Immature Artist
- pt. 3. A Dialectical Portrait of an Emerging Superman
- Introduction. God Being Dead, the Proper Study of Mankind Is Superman. Ch. 1. The Proto-Shaw: A Monster of Propriety (Immaturity). Ch. 2. Thesis: A Monster of the Mind (The Irrational Knot). Ch. 3. Antithesis: A Monster of the Body (Love Among the Artists). Ch. 4. Synthesis (Theory): The Mind and Body of the Superman (Cashel Byron's Profession). Ch. 5. Synthesis (Practice): Mr. Shaw's Profession (An Unsocial Socialist)
- Conclusion: The Romance of the Real, Or, The Adventures of the Irishman in His Search for God.