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Contemporary disillusionment with Western society and frustration in finding new themes , forms and modes of expression inevitably welcomes a literature which mirrors those preoccupations but plays them off against a vital traditional ...
Contemporary disillusionment with Western society and frustration in finding new themes , forms and modes of expression inevitably welcomes a literature which mirrors those preoccupations but plays them off against a vital traditional ...
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One immediately thinks of contemporary miners in isolated regions or itinerant farm workers and also urban ghetto dwellers who often have a rich and living oral tradition which is still being developed and extended .
One immediately thinks of contemporary miners in isolated regions or itinerant farm workers and also urban ghetto dwellers who often have a rich and living oral tradition which is still being developed and extended .
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Such minorities reject the values and artistic forms of the traditional male - dominated , white or European culture ... In the same way , African literature in English is a new and exciting force in literary tradition , one which has ...
Such minorities reject the values and artistic forms of the traditional male - dominated , white or European culture ... In the same way , African literature in English is a new and exciting force in literary tradition , one which has ...
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Contents
The Nature of Literature and its Historical Tradition | 1 |
Narrative Fiction and the Printed Word | 39 |
Aesthetic Elements of Narrative Fiction | 48 |
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