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 27
... existence of what he calls a ' master faculty ' , which is created in certain gifted writers as the result of the confluence of race , moment and milieu . It is the master faculty which results in the representativeness of the great ...
... existence of what he calls a ' master faculty ' , which is created in certain gifted writers as the result of the confluence of race , moment and milieu . It is the master faculty which results in the representativeness of the great ...
Page 116
... existence , who , except in cases of great voluntary sacrifice , would have had no spare money to spend on fiction , although they may have had access to the discarded books of masters or employers . Using contemporary evidence from R ...
... existence , who , except in cases of great voluntary sacrifice , would have had no spare money to spend on fiction , although they may have had access to the discarded books of masters or employers . Using contemporary evidence from R ...
Page 200
... existence of certain conventions that have enabled at least the less inventive of them to regard their output as a market product rather than a work of art . The tradition on which the spy genre draws goes back to Kipling's Kim ( 1901 ) ...
... existence of certain conventions that have enabled at least the less inventive of them to regard their output as a market product rather than a work of art . The tradition on which the spy genre draws goes back to Kipling's Kim ( 1901 ) ...
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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