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Author Alter, Robert.

Title Motives for fiction / Robert Alter
Published Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1984

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 W'PONDS  809.3 A4666/M  AVAILABLE
Description ix, 234 pages ; 25 cm
Contents 1. Fiction and reality Mimesis and the motive for fiction -- History and the new American novel -- The American political novel -- The real and imaginary worlds of Norman Mailer -- Nabokov and the art of politics -- Ada, or the perils of paradise -- Tristram shandy and the game of love -- The demons of history in Dickens's Tale -- Flaubert through his letters -- Proust and the ideological reader -- Borges, Stevens, and post-symbolist writing -- Daniel Martin and the mimetic task -- 2. The stances of criticism The American Edmund Wilson -- Literature and ideology in the thirties -- The education of Alfred Kazin -- Literary lives
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
SUBJECT Mimesis http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86742975 -- In literature. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002011414
Subject Fiction -- History and criticism.
Mimesis in literature.
LC no. 83010829
ISBN 0674587626