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Both 'Browning Version' and 'About a Boy' are too limited by their time-context to be considered serious literature
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'Both 'The Browning Version' and 'About a Boy' are too limited by their time-context to be considered serious literature.' 'Popular fiction is popular only because it says something about the human condition.' In the light of the above two critical opinions, compare Hornby's and Ratigan's treatment of the theme of isolation. 'The Browning Version' and 'About a Boy' are set forty-five years apart, yet still deal with the same theme. Isolation is part of the human condition that almost everyone will have experienced at some point in their lives, hence readers or viewers of these works will be able to identify in some way with them. However, is this limited to time-context? Do the issues of the human condition alone make the fiction popular, or is there more to it? Through the form of the two texts, the writers' intentions become apparent. By alternating the early chapters of 'About a Boy' between...
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