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A Mirror in the Roadway : Literature and the Real World /
In this collection of essays, Morris Dickstein focuses on the rich interchange of ideas between writers such as Kafka, Celine, Carver, Bellow & Kennedy, and the world around them: the lives that formed them, the places they write about, & the social changes they make indelibly real to us.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Woodstock :
Princeton University Press,
2007.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A mirror in the roadway
- American realism: the sense of time and place
- The city as text: New York and the American writer
- The second city (Chicago writers)
- Upton Sinclair and the urban jungle
- A radical comedian (Sinclair Lewis)
- The magic of contradictions: Willa Cather's lost lady
- A different world: from realism to modernism
- The authority of failure (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
- Edmund Wilson: three phases
- A glint of malice (Mary McCarthy)
- Silence, exile, cunning
- The modern writer as exile
- An outsider in his own life (Samuel Beckett)
- Kafka in love
- Hope against hope: Orwell and the future
- Magical realism
- The pornography of power (Gabriel García Márquez)
- A fishy tale (Gunter Grass)
- Talking dogs and pioneers (S.Y. Agnon)
- Postwar fiction in context: genealogies
- Sea change: Celine in America
- The complex fate of the Jewish American writer
- The face in the mirror: the eclipse of distance in contemporary fiction
- Ordinary people: Carver, Ford, and blue-collar realism
- Textures of memory
- Late Bellow: thinking about the dead
- Saints and sinners: William Kennedy's Albany cycle
- Reading and history
- Damaged literacy: the decay of reading
- Finding the right words (Irving Howe)
- The social uses of fiction (Martha Nussbaum)
- The limits of historicism: literary theory and historical understanding.