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 16
... present in fiction - writing , that is feedback , in which the reader indicates his or her reception of the message and attitude to it . It would be present for example in the kind of serialised novels referred to above in connection ...
... present in fiction - writing , that is feedback , in which the reader indicates his or her reception of the message and attitude to it . It would be present for example in the kind of serialised novels referred to above in connection ...
Page 76
... present condition with what I at first expected it should be ; nay with what it certainly would have been , if the good providence of God had not wonderfully ordered the ship to be cast up nearer to the shore , where I not only could ...
... present condition with what I at first expected it should be ; nay with what it certainly would have been , if the good providence of God had not wonderfully ordered the ship to be cast up nearer to the shore , where I not only could ...
Page 134
... present the tragic and the comic scenes , in as regular alternation as the layers of red and white in a side of streaky bacon .... As sudden shiftings of the scene and rapid changes of time and place , are not only sanctioned in books ...
... present the tragic and the comic scenes , in as regular alternation as the layers of red and white in a side of streaky bacon .... As sudden shiftings of the scene and rapid changes of time and place , are not only sanctioned in books ...
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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