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This notion of artistic evolution by the displacement of decorums, once so controversial, now seems commonplace—itself an ironic demonstration of the principle.
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Catherine is barely out of the schoolroom when she enters the social whirl of Bath society, and the novel centres around her attempts, often laughable, to learn about life and social realities.Sheila Kaye-Smith, Talking of Jane Austen (London 1946) p. 218-9 Many of her problems stem from her excessive tendency to take people at their own evaluations;J. Nardin, Those Elegant Decorums (1973) p.
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Many believed that the acclaimed Russian author Tolstoy should have been awarded the first Nobel prize in literature.Helmer Lång 100 nobelpris i litteratur 1901-2001, Bokförlaget Symposium 2001 (in swedish) The choice of philosopher Rudolf Eucken as Nobel Laureate in 1908 is widely considered to be one of the worst mistakes in the history of the Nobel Prize in Literature. The main candidates for the prize this year were poet Algernon Swinburne and author Selma Lagerlöf, but the Academy were divided between the candidates and, as a compromise, Eucken, representative of the Academy's interpretation of Nobel's "ideal direction", was launched as an alternative candidate that could be agreed upon.Helmer Lång 100 nobelpris i litteratur 1901-2001, Symposion 2001, page 25, page 56 The choice of Selma Lagerlöf (Sweden 1858–1940) as Nobel Laureate in 1909 (for the 'lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception that characterizes her writings') followed fierce debate because of her writing style and subject matter, which broke literary decorums of the time.
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