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 194
... Tony Bennett involves discussion of such questions as : how is ' popular ' fiction distinguished from ' serious ' fiction ? can only sociological or socio - cultural methods be used to study it ? and so on . Some of these questions will ...
... Tony Bennett involves discussion of such questions as : how is ' popular ' fiction distinguished from ' serious ' fiction ? can only sociological or socio - cultural methods be used to study it ? and so on . Some of these questions will ...
Page 210
... Tony Bennett says : ' If the early novels play on the tensions of the Cold War period , the latter ones play on the fragility of the newly forged structures of detente . ' ( Politics , Ideology and Popular Culture Open University U203 ...
... Tony Bennett says : ' If the early novels play on the tensions of the Cold War period , the latter ones play on the fragility of the newly forged structures of detente . ' ( Politics , Ideology and Popular Culture Open University U203 ...
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... Tony Bennett laments the fact that there are ' as yet no serious readership studies ' . They seem to be going in the ... Bennett's approval is Janice Radway's Reading the Romance . Although Bennett warns against ' simple - minded ...
... Tony Bennett laments the fact that there are ' as yet no serious readership studies ' . They seem to be going in the ... Bennett's approval is Janice Radway's Reading the Romance . Although Bennett warns against ' simple - minded ...
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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