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 35
... Marxist critics such as Lukács have recommended ever since : ' Realism to my mind , implies besides truth of detail , the truthful reproduction of typical characters under typical circumstances . ' ( quoted in Demetz , p . 132 ) His ...
... Marxist critics such as Lukács have recommended ever since : ' Realism to my mind , implies besides truth of detail , the truthful reproduction of typical characters under typical circumstances . ' ( quoted in Demetz , p . 132 ) His ...
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... Marxist metaphor in which art is a passive ' reflection ' he does not want to return to the pre- or anti - Marxist position in which literature is segregated into an independent ' aesthetic ' zone , unrelated to other human activities ...
... Marxist metaphor in which art is a passive ' reflection ' he does not want to return to the pre- or anti - Marxist position in which literature is segregated into an independent ' aesthetic ' zone , unrelated to other human activities ...
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... Marxist critic writing in Britain , although some readers may find his rigorously systematic approach somewhat blunted by a highly condensed and metaphorical style and an implicit reliance on the difficult ideas of the French Marxist ...
... Marxist critic writing in Britain , although some readers may find his rigorously systematic approach somewhat blunted by a highly condensed and metaphorical style and an implicit reliance on the difficult ideas of the French Marxist ...
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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