1st Edition

E. M. Forster as Critic

By Vivienne Koch Copyright 1984
272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

This title, first published in 1984, is a study of E. M. Forster as a liberal-humanist thinker and socio-literary critic. Advani discusses Forster’s ideas on man, society, politics, religion, art, aesthetics, fiction and literary criticism. The author examines why Forster was impelled from fiction towards socio-literary criticism and propaganda for art within the political and cultural context of... Read more

Preface;  List of Abbreviations;  Introduction: Forster and the Liberal Dilemma;  1. Forster’s View of the Nature of Man and Human Experience  2. Forster’s View of Social Order  3. Forster’s View of Religion  4. Forster’s Aesthetics  5. Forster’s View of the Novel  6. Forster on Criticism and as a Critic  7. Forster’s Literary Criticism;  Conclusion;  Set Bibliography;  Index

Biography

Rukun Advani