The Framework of Fiction: Socio-cultural Approaches to the Novel'...offers thoughtful summaries and critiques of both Marxist...and moralist...theories of the novel in society. The primary focus, however, is on a detailed study of the social context of the novel and the changing relationship between novelists and their readers...' |
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Page 39
... Lukács was appointed its Minister of Education ; on its collapse he fled first to Germany and then , after the rise of the Nazis , to exile in Russia . However , his relationship to the Stalinist government was always ambivalent and in ...
... Lukács was appointed its Minister of Education ; on its collapse he fled first to Germany and then , after the rise of the Nazis , to exile in Russia . However , his relationship to the Stalinist government was always ambivalent and in ...
Page 40
... Lukács contrasts ( to the scandal of more conventional Marxists ) Balzac and Zola . Despite Balzac's reactionary politics , Lukács finds him to be deadly accurate and ' correct ' in his perception of a society making the transition from ...
... Lukács contrasts ( to the scandal of more conventional Marxists ) Balzac and Zola . Despite Balzac's reactionary politics , Lukács finds him to be deadly accurate and ' correct ' in his perception of a society making the transition from ...
Page 97
... Lukács , to present his novels as vast canvases on which the ' social - historical ' types ( dear to this critic's theory ) can be portrayed and shown to interact . These ' types ' are not the great characters of history , such as ...
... Lukács , to present his novels as vast canvases on which the ' social - historical ' types ( dear to this critic's theory ) can be portrayed and shown to interact . These ' types ' are not the great characters of history , such as ...
Contents
Theoretical Approaches | 21 |
Defoe and Richardson | 59 |
Varieties of Conservative | 87 |
Copyright | |
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The Framework of Fiction: Socio-cultural Approaches to the Novel John Bull No preview available - 1988 |
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