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 130
... Serial publication demands a series of narrative sequences that engage the readers ' interest , curiosity and emotional in- volvement , often through the use of suspense . Each instalment needs to be relatively self - contained but the ...
... Serial publication demands a series of narrative sequences that engage the readers ' interest , curiosity and emotional in- volvement , often through the use of suspense . Each instalment needs to be relatively self - contained but the ...
Page 131
... Serial Novelist ( 1967 ) and Lance Schactele in ' Oliver Twist and its Serial Pre- decessors ' ( 1980 ) have suggested that Dickens solved the problem of the ' double perspective ' ( self - contained units in an overall design ) more ...
... Serial Novelist ( 1967 ) and Lance Schactele in ' Oliver Twist and its Serial Pre- decessors ' ( 1980 ) have suggested that Dickens solved the problem of the ' double perspective ' ( self - contained units in an overall design ) more ...
Page 132
... serial and subsequent renegotiations with the publisher . In September 1838 the reason may have been to delay completion of the serial so that the three - volume edition ( which was about to be published ) would maintain its sales ...
... serial and subsequent renegotiations with the publisher . In September 1838 the reason may have been to delay completion of the serial so that the three - volume edition ( which was about to be published ) would maintain its sales ...
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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