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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... production and reception of the text , for example biographical , psychological , historical and sociological approaches among others . The term ' socio - cultural ' seems more meaningful than ' extrinsic ' to sum up these approaches ...
... production and reception of the text , for example biographical , psychological , historical and sociological approaches among others . The term ' socio - cultural ' seems more meaningful than ' extrinsic ' to sum up these approaches ...
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... production . Even Plekhanov's more elaborate and indirect formulation ( see p . 37 ) is misleading in his view because it fails to take account of the fact that ' consciousness ' plays just as important a role in social relation- ships ...
... production . Even Plekhanov's more elaborate and indirect formulation ( see p . 37 ) is misleading in his view because it fails to take account of the fact that ' consciousness ' plays just as important a role in social relation- ships ...
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... production ' of ideology , leading to radically different final forms . However , by studying the process of ' production ' we are privileged to glimpse from outside the operation of an ideology otherwise inaccessible to us . In order ...
... production ' of ideology , leading to radically different final forms . However , by studying the process of ' production ' we are privileged to glimpse from outside the operation of an ideology otherwise inaccessible to us . In order ...
Contents
Theoretical Approaches | 21 |
Defoe and Richardson | 59 |
Varieties of Conservative | 87 |
Copyright | |
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