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A Mirror in the Roadway: Literature and the Real World Hardcover - 2005
by Morris Dickstein
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ONCE THERE WAS a common assumption that along with everything else that gave meaning to literature-the mastery of language and form, the personality of the author, the moral authority, the degree of originality, the reactions of the reader-hardly anything
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- Title A Mirror in the Roadway: Literature and the Real World
- Author Morris Dickstein
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st Edition
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Princeton University Press, Prince Edward Island
- Date April 18, 2005
- ISBN 9780691119960 / 0691119961
- Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
- Dimensions 9.25 x 6 x 0.94 in (23.50 x 15.24 x 2.39 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Literature, Modern - 20th century - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004053514
- Dewey Decimal Code 809.04
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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…
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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…
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