Publication

2003-11-01 - Ashgate Publishing

Language

English

Word Count

56,000 words, Guess

Page Count

224 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100754635686
  • ISBN-139780754635680
  • Goodreads4120273
  • Open LibraryOL9389291M

First Sentence

In his monograph on John Collier published in 1914, Walter Herries Pollock ventured a rhetorical guess at the origin of the by-then popular term 'problem picture': '1 can but hazard a theory that some critic heard somebody else, of abnormally dense intelligence, say words to this effect: "That picture puzzles me; it's quite a problem," and was suddenly struck by the unhappy thought that "problem-picture" would be something of a novel and effective phrase.

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