Table of Contents: The poetics of protest :

Main Author:	Goodin, George.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©1985.
Subjects:	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. TRAVEL > Special Interest > Literary. LITERARY CRITICISM > General. Fiction. Political fiction. Romans. Sociaal protest.
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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 from and political implication.