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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... readers of the novel must have belonged to another social group . ( The numerical data do not of course tell us how much the readers enjoyed the experience ! ) The term sociometric has been used by one writer to describe this sort of ...
... readers of the novel must have belonged to another social group . ( The numerical data do not of course tell us how much the readers enjoyed the experience ! ) The term sociometric has been used by one writer to describe this sort of ...
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... reader their starting point and attempt to examine the expectations which readers may have of a particular text , the effects which the text may have on the readers and the uses to which the act of reading may be put . An early attempt ...
... reader their starting point and attempt to examine the expectations which readers may have of a particular text , the effects which the text may have on the readers and the uses to which the act of reading may be put . An early attempt ...
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... readers , with enough disposable income to spend on books . The invention and development of circulating libraries ( described in more detail in the next chapter but dating from at least 1720 ) reduced the cost of reading to that of a ...
... readers , with enough disposable income to spend on books . The invention and development of circulating libraries ( described in more detail in the next chapter but dating from at least 1720 ) reduced the cost of reading to that of a ...
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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