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 40
... bourgeois novelist for creating a realistic analysis of society and intro- ducing instead a period of bland escapism and concern with art for art's sake . To illustrate this argument Lukács contrasts ( to the scandal of more ...
... bourgeois novelist for creating a realistic analysis of society and intro- ducing instead a period of bland escapism and concern with art for art's sake . To illustrate this argument Lukács contrasts ( to the scandal of more ...
Page 43
... bourgeois society and its ideology of ' individualism ' - the egotistical advancement of the individual in competition with others . Since this society is dominated by ' exchange values ' which subordinate all relation- ships to the ...
... bourgeois society and its ideology of ' individualism ' - the egotistical advancement of the individual in competition with others . Since this society is dominated by ' exchange values ' which subordinate all relation- ships to the ...
Page 57
... bourgeois norms through literature comes from those writers who are within but not of bourgeois society the lower middle classes ( Eliot , Dickens ) and foreigners ( James , Conrad ) . It is also reminiscent of Lukács ' attempt to ...
... bourgeois norms through literature comes from those writers who are within but not of bourgeois society the lower middle classes ( Eliot , Dickens ) and foreigners ( James , Conrad ) . It is also reminiscent of Lukács ' attempt to ...
Contents
Theoretical Approaches | 21 |
Defoe and Richardson | 59 |
Varieties of Conservative | 87 |
Copyright | |
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