A Mirror in the Roadway: Literature and the Real WorldPrinceton University Press, 10 օգս, 2021 թ. - 320 էջ In a famous passage in The Red and the Black, the French writer Stendhal described the novel as a mirror being carried along a roadway. In the twentieth century this was derided as a naïve notion of realism. Instead, modern writers experimented with creative forms of invention and dislocation. Deconstructive theorists went even further, questioning whether literature had any real reference to a world outside its own language, while traditional historians challenged whether novels gave a trustworthy representation of history and society. |
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New York and the American Writer | 17 |
Willa Cathers Lost Lady | 60 |
Three Phases | 89 |
Silence Exile Cunning | 104 |
Orwell and the Future | 126 |
Magical Realism | 137 |
Céline in America | 153 |
The Complex Fate of the Jewish American Writer | 168 |
Carver Ford and BlueCollar Realism | 199 |
Textures of Memory | 209 |
The Decay of Reading | 223 |
Finding the Right Words Irving Howe | 234 |
The Social Uses of Fiction Martha Nussbaum | 243 |
Sources | 259 |
Index | 271 |
The Eclipse of Distance | 184 |