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Richard Hoggart and Grahame Martin discuss the contrast betwen the prose styles of D.H.Lawrence and E.M.Forster, with particular reference to 'The Fox' and 'Where Angels Fear to Tread'. Hoggart rel...ates those differences to the backgrounds of the two authors, their relation to the society of their time, their aims as conscious artists and their contrasted individual characters. The programme was filmed at Hoggart's home in Paris.
Richard Hoggart and Grahame Martin discuss the contrast betwen the prose styles of D.H.Lawrence and E.M.Forster, with particular reference to 'The Fox' and 'Where Angels Fear to Tread'. Hoggart rel...ates those differences to the backgrounds of the two authors, their relation to the society of their time, their aims as conscious artists and their contrasted individual characters. The programme was filmed at Hoggart's home in Paris.
| Module code and title: | A302, The nineteenth century novel and its legacy |
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| Item code: | A302; 15 |
| First transmission date: | 19-09-1973 |
| Published: | 1973 |
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| Duration: | 00:19:00 |
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| Producer: | Alasdair Clayre |
| Contributors: | Richard Hoggart; Grahame Martin |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Footage description: | Graham Martin introduces Richard Hoggart and the programme. Richard Hoggart states that his intention is to compare the styles of the two authors. The opening paragraph of Forsterfs 'Where Angels Fear to Tread' is compared with that of Lawrence's 'The Fox'. Richard Hoggart discusses the concept of style; he emphasises its importance in his definition of the meaning of style, and goes on to analyse three aspects of style. These generalisations are related to Forster and to Hoggart. In determing the degree to which the individual's background is important in the forming of style, photographs of their birth place and of Forster and Lawrence as young men are shown. Richard Hoggart and Graham Martin discuss the inadequacy of a simple pictorial record as a means to determining anything beyond class and economic status. Choosing a point in the novel at which the author's style is likely to be at its most characteristic, Hoggart chooses the entrance of Philip in Forster's 'Where Angels Fear to Tread'. He analyses the sequence. Richard Hoggart describes D.H. Lawrence's attitude to Forster, or rather the literary, intellectual ambience which Forster represents. Hoggart then analyses the first description of March in "The Fox". This is compared with Forster. Hoggart generalises upon Lawrence's style. Graham Martin and Richard Hoggart discuss the cultural allusion characteristic of Foster's obliqueness of expression. An episode in 'The Fox' is compared with the comparable episode in 'Where Angels Fear to Tread' which had been used as the example in the previous sequence. Graham Martin and Richard Hoggart and Foster in general terms. |
| Master spool number: | 6HT/71180 |
| Production number: | 00525_3014 |
| Videofinder number: | 2588 |
| Available to public: | no |
