Focusing on the work of Hardy, Lawrence, Conrad, Joyce, Forster and Woolf, this study is divided into two main sections. The first shows how historical and contextual material is essential for the development of critical readings. Thus the first chapter calls into question such new critical shibboleths as "exit author" and the "biographical fallacy" and discusses how the author becomes a formal presence within the text. The second section is theoretical and speaks of the transformation in the way we read and think about ...
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Focusing on the work of Hardy, Lawrence, Conrad, Joyce, Forster and Woolf, this study is divided into two main sections. The first shows how historical and contextual material is essential for the development of critical readings. Thus the first chapter calls into question such new critical shibboleths as "exit author" and the "biographical fallacy" and discusses how the author becomes a formal presence within the text. The second section is theoretical and speaks of the transformation in the way we read and think about authors, readers, characters and form in the light of recent theory. In two polemical chapters Schwarz offers an alternative to the way that the deconstructive and Marxist ethos have sought to transform literary studies.
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