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... concern with society at all . Nobody has expressed this better than Oscar Wilde in his characteristically brilliant essay on ' The Decay of Lying ' : Art never expresses anything but itself . It has an independent life , just as Thought ...
... concern with society at all . Nobody has expressed this better than Oscar Wilde in his characteristically brilliant essay on ' The Decay of Lying ' : Art never expresses anything but itself . It has an independent life , just as Thought ...
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... concerned with the reality seen through particular approaches ; a most important concern of the sociology of literature is with the social origin of various conventions and genres . The reason for this is simply that we know rather ...
... concerned with the reality seen through particular approaches ; a most important concern of the sociology of literature is with the social origin of various conventions and genres . The reason for this is simply that we know rather ...
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... concern with content at the expense of form namely to consider form without content . As argued , new formal demands are necessitated in large part by the need to capture new experience . One striking example of this concerns the social ...
... concern with content at the expense of form namely to consider form without content . As argued , new formal demands are necessitated in large part by the need to capture new experience . One striking example of this concerns the social ...
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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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