Man’s Changing Mask

Man’s Changing Mask was first published in 1966.Taking a bold new step in literary criticism, Professor Walcutt attacks the problem of characterization in fiction by going back to a neglected concept of Aristotle, namely that the action is more important than the characters, and that it generates the characters. By close examination of a wide range of works he shows how characterization is a product of the action (or plot) and demonstrates how it may be understood in that context. Most of the wo