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Sylvan Barnet

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Sylvan Barnet is an American literary critic and Shakespearean scholar. He is a Fletcher Professor of English Emeritus at Tufts University.

Barnet is the author of numerous books and articles on Shakespeare. He is the general editor of the Signet Classics Shakespeare,[1] the author of A Short Guide to Shakespeare,[2] and has written many textbooks. He is the co-author with William Burto of occasional essays on aspects of Japanese art.[3] He has also written books about the art of writing.

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	A Short Guide to Writing About Art (The Short Guide Series) 3.93 avg rating — 790 ratings — published 1981 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Current Issues and Enduring Questions by Sylvan Barnet, Hugo Bedau 3.80 avg rating — 169 ratings — 92 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Short Guide to Writing About Literature (Short Guides Series) by Sylvan Barnet, William E. Cain 3.68 avg rating — 98 ratings — published 1968 — 40 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Literature for Composition: Essays, Fiction, Poetry, and Drama by Sylvan Barnet, William E. Cain, William E. Burto 3.66 avg rating — 90 ratings — published 1984 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing: A Brief Guide to Argument by Sylvan Barnet, Hugo Bedau 3.55 avg rating — 86 ratings — 67 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	From Critical Thinking to Argument: A Portable Guide by Sylvan Barnet, Hugo Badau 3.64 avg rating — 81 ratings — published 2004 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Introduction to Literature by Sylvan Barnet, William E. Cain, William Burto 3.74 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 1971 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eight Great Comedies: The Complete Texts of the World's Great Comedies from Ancient Times to the Twentieth Century by Sylvan Barnet (Editor), Morton Berman (Editor), William Burto (Editor) 3.81 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 1958 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eight Great Tragedies: Prometheus Bound, Oedipus the King, Hippolytus, King Lear, Ghosts, Miss Julie, on Bailles Strand, Desire Under the Elms. by Sylvan Barnet, Morton Berman, William Burto (Editor) 3.75 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 1957 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Types of Drama: Plays and Contexts (8th Edition) by Sylvan Barnet, William E. Burto, Lesley Ferris 3.72 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1977 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Man is mortal. This is his fate. Man pretends not to be mortal. That is his sin. Man is a creature of time and place, whose perspectives and insights are invariably conditioned by his immediate circumstances.”
― Sylvan Barnet

tags: doctor-faustus, men, mortal, renaissance

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“We can say that Faustus makes a choice, and that he is responsible for his choice, but there is in the play a suggestion—sometimes explicit, sometimes only dimly implicit—that Faustus comes to destruction not merely through his own actions but through the actions of a hostile cosmos that entraps him. In this sense, too, there is something of Everyman in Faustus. The story of Adam, for instance, insists on Adam's culpability; Adam, like Faustus, made himself, rather than God, the center of his existence. And yet, despite the traditional expositions, one cannot entirely suppress the commonsense response that if the Creator knew Adam would fall, the Creator rather than Adam is responsible for the fall; Adam ought to have been created of better stuff.”
― Sylvan Barnet, Dr. Faustus

tags: determinism, introduction, original-sin

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“Something is wrong with a sentence when you can delete words and not sense the loss.”
― Sylvan Barnet, A Short Guide to Writing About Art

tags: sylvan-barnet, writing-advice, writing-books, writing-process

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