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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... social setting ' . It received a powerful impetus from the writings on art of Marx and Engels and of their followers who were committed to the notion that literature resembled other human activities in being adequately explained only by ...
... social setting ' . It received a powerful impetus from the writings on art of Marx and Engels and of their followers who were committed to the notion that literature resembled other human activities in being adequately explained only by ...
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... social or political concern , on the other a willing- ness to rest content with an explanation of the social context of one particular text . Despite these flaws , social - cultural theories form the back- ground to much contemporary ...
... social or political concern , on the other a willing- ness to rest content with an explanation of the social context of one particular text . Despite these flaws , social - cultural theories form the back- ground to much contemporary ...
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... social animal ' ; the portrayal of ' social types ' - the synthesis of particular and general found in the classical realism of Balzac and Tolstoy ; and an attempt to convey a social ' totality ' , but with the ' inward ' aim of realism ...
... social animal ' ; the portrayal of ' social types ' - the synthesis of particular and general found in the classical realism of Balzac and Tolstoy ; and an attempt to convey a social ' totality ' , but with the ' inward ' aim of realism ...
Contents
Theoretical Approaches | 21 |
Defoe and Richardson | 59 |
Varieties of Conservative | 87 |
Copyright | |
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