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... society itself ( and by this we mean a real concrete society , and not the abstract ' society ' of functionalist mythology ) has to be seen as a concentration of many determinations . This conception of society as a totality of ...
... society itself ( and by this we mean a real concrete society , and not the abstract ' society ' of functionalist mythology ) has to be seen as a concentration of many determinations . This conception of society as a totality of ...
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... society . But such an analysis of Shakespeare's position in Elizabethan society is essentially superficial . Certainly , Shakespeare came from the bourgeois class ; but , as an Elizabethan dramatist , he was also a servant of the court ...
... society . But such an analysis of Shakespeare's position in Elizabethan society is essentially superficial . Certainly , Shakespeare came from the bourgeois class ; but , as an Elizabethan dramatist , he was also a servant of the court ...
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... society changes such that ' The writer no longer participates in the great struggles of his time , but is reduced to a mere spectator and chronicler of public life.'131 This twofold development gives birth , on the one hand , to ...
... society changes such that ' The writer no longer participates in the great struggles of his time , but is reduced to a mere spectator and chronicler of public life.'131 This twofold development gives birth , on the one hand , to ...
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Goldmanns Genetic Structuralism | 8 |
A Note on the Problem of Aesthetics | 18 |
Lukács and Socialist Realism | 24 |
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