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Towards a Sociology of the Novel

This disappearance of the subject can also be seen in the theater of absence exemplified by playwrights like Beckett and Adamov, as well as in non-representational art.

#Bildungsroman: This type of novel usually ends with a “self-imposed limitation” as the hero gives up his search for authentic values.



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Sociology of literature

Lukács was an important influence on Lucien Goldmann's Towards a Sociology of the Novel, Alan Swingewood's discussion of the sociology of the novel in Part 3 of Laurenson and Swingewood's The Sociology of Literature and Franco Moretti's Signs Taken for Wonders.