Joseph Blotner As A Political Novel Analysis

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Joseph L. Blotner makes it very specific by adding that ‘...a political novel is ... a book which directly describes, interprets or analyses political phenomenon.’ But from Irving Howe point of view, political novel means: ‘...a novel in which political ideas play a leading role or in which the political environment is the dominant setting.’ He further goes on to add that it may be so in the mind of the major characters: ‘...so that there is to ‘be observed in their behavior, and they are themselves aware of, some consistent political loyalty or ideological association. They now think in terms of supporting or opposing society as such; they rally to one or another tormented segment of society; and they do so in the name of, and under prompting