SOCIAL THEMES IN ‘THE LOST WORLD’ BY ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
Keywords:
Sociological method, sociological approach, literary analysis, The Lost World.Abstract
Social and political factors have at all times a critical influence on culture and literature in general. The sociological method is able to explain the relationship of a work with external reality, indicating social life, politics and economy of a period. The sociological method, like all other variants of analysis, puts forward its own principles of generalization. This article demonstrates some examples of the implementation of this very method in the novel ‘The Lost World’ by Arthur Conan Doyle analyzing it through sociological approach.
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