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
... results which are un- satisfyingly reductive ( reducing complex literary texts to the operation of a few mechanical causes or laws ) ... result of the confluence of race , moment and milieu . It is the master faculty which results in the ...
... results which are un- satisfyingly reductive ( reducing complex literary texts to the operation of a few mechanical causes or laws ) ... result of the confluence of race , moment and milieu . It is the master faculty which results in the ...
Page 97
... result and the necessity of this result is the ground on which he stands . But Scott's artistic world - view by no means stops here . Scott sees the endless field of ruin , wrecked existences , wrecked or wasted heroic , human endeavour ...
... result and the necessity of this result is the ground on which he stands . But Scott's artistic world - view by no means stops here . Scott sees the endless field of ruin , wrecked existences , wrecked or wasted heroic , human endeavour ...
Page 142
... result is that Carson is slowly moved towards a change of heart . Although still considered , we are told , hard and unfeeling by those who do not know him , he is converted to the desire ' that a perfect understanding ' , and complete ...
... result is that Carson is slowly moved towards a change of heart . Although still considered , we are told , hard and unfeeling by those who do not know him , he is converted to the desire ' that a perfect understanding ' , and complete ...
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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