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 33
... seems to devalue all mental activity as merely ' superstructural ' , would seem to encourage a ' reductive ' approach to fiction , demoting it to a simple reflex of social and economic relationships with no intrinsic value or dynamic of ...
... seems to devalue all mental activity as merely ' superstructural ' , would seem to encourage a ' reductive ' approach to fiction , demoting it to a simple reflex of social and economic relationships with no intrinsic value or dynamic of ...
Page 143
... seems to incorporate less material than eventually went into the two - volume edition . Since , as we have seen , three- volume novels were felt to carry most prestige , the omission of certain items from the original plan seems to ...
... seems to incorporate less material than eventually went into the two - volume edition . Since , as we have seen , three- volume novels were felt to carry most prestige , the omission of certain items from the original plan seems to ...
Page 228
... seems totally logical to me and it expresses in a different way a point I have made several times , that all ... seem to be going in the same direction as each other and also as Sharratt - at least that is the impression non - Marxists ...
... seems totally logical to me and it expresses in a different way a point I have made several times , that all ... seem to be going in the same direction as each other and also as Sharratt - at least that is the impression non - Marxists ...
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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