A Mirror in the Roadway : : Literature and the Real World /

A Mirror in the Roadway : : Literature and the Real World / / Morris Dickstein.

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. Decon...

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Dickstein, Morris,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
©2005
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction 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
  • Hope against Hope: Orwell and the Future
  • Magical Realism
  • Postwar Fiction in Context: Genealogies
  • Sea Change: Céline 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
  • 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
  • Sources
  • Index

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