| Description |
ix, 241 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. Notes on the novel -- 2. Clarissa, dialectic and unreadability -- 3. The nineteenth century Four Germans: Hoffman, Kleist, Goethe and Büchner -- The illustrated novel: thoughts on the novels of Dickens -- Reading signs: Hawthorne and the characters of allegory -- 4. The text against itself The dialectics of the Enlightenment: Elective affinities and Women in love -- Utopias: Butler and Morris -- Repetition: Kierkegaard and Proust -- A note on metonymy in Proust -- Doubles: Conrad, Irzykowski, Poe, Hawthorne -- Józef Konrad -- The late henry James: substitution, projection and the guilty eye -- 5. Fictions of identity: modernism in Germany The fading of modernism -- The art of lying: three post-war English novels -- The survival of modernism: some post-war American novels Invisible man The crying of Lot 49: mirrors, paranoia and the senselessness of an ending Gravity's rainbow: Nullpunkt, Brennschluss The public and the private burning: Coover and Doctorow |
| Analysis |
Fiction in European language Realism, 1750-1950 - Critical studies |
| Notes |
Includes indexes |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliography |
| Subject |
Fantasy in literature.
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Fiction -- History and criticism.
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Realism in literature.
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Self-knowledge in literature.
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| LC no. |
88672238 |
| ISBN |
0333347080 |
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