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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... structure . It is the particular tragic structure of Racine's plays which is held to express the outlook of the Jansenists and also of the ambiguously situated and socially anxious class from which they were drawn . The literary critic ...
... structure . It is the particular tragic structure of Racine's plays which is held to express the outlook of the Jansenists and also of the ambiguously situated and socially anxious class from which they were drawn . The literary critic ...
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... structure i.e. a social structure . In doing so , I in no way wish to find sociological elements in the work . The latter is nothing other than a text having , or not having , a coherent structure . ( p . 103 ) Goldmann's method is ...
... structure i.e. a social structure . In doing so , I in no way wish to find sociological elements in the work . The latter is nothing other than a text having , or not having , a coherent structure . ( p . 103 ) Goldmann's method is ...
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... structure of feeling , a term which he prefers to employ rather than ' ideology ' or ' world vision ' in relation to particular authors , since it lays stress on the quality of ' felt ' or ' lived ' experience , as dictated of course by ...
... structure of feeling , a term which he prefers to employ rather than ' ideology ' or ' world vision ' in relation to particular authors , since it lays stress on the quality of ' felt ' or ' lived ' experience , as dictated of course by ...
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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