A Mirror in the Roadway: Literature and the Real World de Dickstein, Morris - 2005

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Princeton University Press, 2005-04-18. Hardcover. Used:Good.

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2005. Edition Unstated. Hardcover (Half Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. Octavo (standard book size). Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting No foxing in this copy but a slight browning in front inside spine gutter All edges clean, neat and free of foxing 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.In this book, Morris Dickstein reinterprets… Leer más

Princeton. 2005. Princeton University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0691119961. 304 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literary Criticism. FROM THE PUBLISHER - 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.'In this book, Morris Dickstein reinterprets Stendhal's metaphor and tracks the different worlds of a wide array of twentieth-century writers, from realists like Theodore Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis, Edith Wharton, and Willa Cather, through modernists like Franz Kafka and Samuel Beckett,… Leer más

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Princeton University Press, 2005-05-08. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!