The poetics of protest : literary form and political implication in the victim-of-society novel

The poetics of protest : literary form and political implication in the victim-of-society novel /

Goodin takes a formalistic approach to political expression in the victim-of-society novel, asking the question, how do the formal features of the novel constrain thematic expression? He notes that the writer must balance the protagonist's role as victim against the role as resilient human bein...

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Main Author: Goodin, George
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©1985.
Subjects:
Geschichte 1800-1984.
Fiction > History and criticism.
Political fiction > History and criticism.
Politics and literature.
Literature and society.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Victims in literature.
Roman > Histoire et critique.
Politique et littérature.
Littérature et société
Narration.
17.90 literature in relation with other areas of science and culture.
Fiction.
Political fiction.
Gesellschaft > Motiv
Opfer > Sozialpsychologie, Motiv
Romans.
Sociaal protest.
Slachtoffers.
Roman.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: A problem in composition
  • The innocent victim: Oliver Twist, Ivan Denisovich, The dollmaker
  • The virtuous victim: Les misérables, Billy Budd, The power and the glory, Uncle Tom's cabin
  • The flawed victim: An American tragedy, L'Assommoir, Native son, The red and the black
  • The pseudo victim: Catch-22, Ivan Chonkin, One flew over the cuckoo's nest, Tobacco Road
  • Permutations and combinations: Bleak House, Grapes of wrath, Fontamara, The fratricides
  • Conclusion: Literary form and political implication.

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