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Fiction, far from being the opposite of truth, is wholly bent on finding it out, and writing novels is a way to know the real world as objectively as possible. In Five Fictions in Search of Truth, Myra Jehlen develops this idea through readings of works by Flaubert, James, and Nabokov. She invokes P...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Jehlen, Myra (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2008]
Edición:Course Book
Temas:
Fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • PROLOGUE. A Real Madeleine Is a Work of Art
  • CHAPTER ONE. Salammbô: Three Rough Stones beneath a Rainy Sky
  • CHAPTER TWO. The Sacred Fount: The Case of the Man Who Suddenly Grew Smart
  • CHAPTER THREE. The Ambassadors: What He Saw Was Exactly the Right Thing
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Lolita: A Beautiful, Banal, Eden-Red Apple
  • CHAPTER FIVE. A Simple Heart: Félicité and the Holy Parrot
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index

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