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... kind of literary sociology . Thus he may comment on the fact that certain novels appeal primarily to women or to the young or to the alienated ; he may try to ex- plain why the typical nineteenth - century reader tended to admire one ...
... kind of literary sociology . Thus he may comment on the fact that certain novels appeal primarily to women or to the young or to the alienated ; he may try to ex- plain why the typical nineteenth - century reader tended to admire one ...
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... kind . It is not , for example , either philosophical or historical knowledge as such , though literature may incidentally involve such knowledge . The peculiar kind of knowledge that literature gives us is concrete - not a ...
... kind . It is not , for example , either philosophical or historical knowledge as such , though literature may incidentally involve such knowledge . The peculiar kind of knowledge that literature gives us is concrete - not a ...
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... kind of truth about human beings : it has its own kind of objectivity , and yet its kind of truth is always a kind of truth related to ourselves . The truth that literature - gives us about other people is only incidentally historical ...
... kind of truth about human beings : it has its own kind of objectivity , and yet its kind of truth is always a kind of truth related to ourselves . The truth that literature - gives us about other people is only incidentally historical ...
Contents
The Uses of Literature 1963 I | 1 |
The Modern Writer and his Community 1965 | 17 |
Thinker and Artist 1965 | 37 |
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