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Page 95
... become ' psychopaths ' instead . In such matters romantic literature is a particularly good recorder of changes in social attitudes . But the basic desire to preach remains very prevalent : just as Marie Corelli had insisted that ...
... become ' psychopaths ' instead . In such matters romantic literature is a particularly good recorder of changes in social attitudes . But the basic desire to preach remains very prevalent : just as Marie Corelli had insisted that ...
Page 99
... become unnecessary ( 1971 , p . 197 ) . This is to argue , as Gans ( 1974 ) does , that different taste cultures exist , all of which have a claim to be satisfied on the democratic ground that literature is ultimately a way of providing ...
... become unnecessary ( 1971 , p . 197 ) . This is to argue , as Gans ( 1974 ) does , that different taste cultures exist , all of which have a claim to be satisfied on the democratic ground that literature is ultimately a way of providing ...
Page 148
... become more difficult to publish original imaginative work , particularly first novels . Gedin offers two reasons additional to that offered by Gellner for what he , following Mrs Leavis , terms ' the disintegration of the reading ...
... become more difficult to publish original imaginative work , particularly first novels . Gedin offers two reasons additional to that offered by Gellner for what he , following Mrs Leavis , terms ' the disintegration of the reading ...
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The sociology of literature | 24 |
The sociology of the author | 50 |
The novel realism and modernism | 64 |
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