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 30
... values which oppose the debased contemporary ones . Leavis finds these values to be most accessible in the fiction which he called ' The Great Tradition ' : Jane Austen , Eliot , James , Conrad and - most relevant to the present age ...
... values which oppose the debased contemporary ones . Leavis finds these values to be most accessible in the fiction which he called ' The Great Tradition ' : Jane Austen , Eliot , James , Conrad and - most relevant to the present age ...
Page 43
... values ' which subordinate all relation- ships to the power of money only those individuals who can stand outside the ' action of the market ' are able to cling to the ' authentic ' or ' use values ' of natural and man - made objects ...
... values ' which subordinate all relation- ships to the power of money only those individuals who can stand outside the ' action of the market ' are able to cling to the ' authentic ' or ' use values ' of natural and man - made objects ...
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... values emerge in a specific case . ' Robinson Crusoe ' A novel might fairly be described as presenting middle - class values if the values of its author are middle class and are explicitly presented in the text or if the characters are ...
... values emerge in a specific case . ' Robinson Crusoe ' A novel might fairly be described as presenting middle - class values if the values of its author are middle class and are explicitly presented in the text or if the characters are ...
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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