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 42
... world vision of the group in a coherent way that is not consciously available to its individual members . The world vision resembles the ' ideology ' of classical Marxism since it describes the beliefs and value system by which a class ...
... world vision of the group in a coherent way that is not consciously available to its individual members . The world vision resembles the ' ideology ' of classical Marxism since it describes the beliefs and value system by which a class ...
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... world vision of this group , notably creative artists who may belong in socio - economic terms to the bourgeoisie but aspire to values it rejects . Novels usually take a biographical form , following the fortunes of a hero through time ...
... world vision of this group , notably creative artists who may belong in socio - economic terms to the bourgeoisie but aspire to values it rejects . Novels usually take a biographical form , following the fortunes of a hero through time ...
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... world vision are typically those of writers such as Robbe - Grillet in which minute descriptions of inanimate objects predominate , since it is things and their possibilities for con- sumption and exchange which are now most significant ...
... world vision are typically those of writers such as Robbe - Grillet in which minute descriptions of inanimate objects predominate , since it is things and their possibilities for con- sumption and exchange which are now most significant ...
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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