Imagined cities : urban experience and the language of the novel /
Alter, Robert.
Imagined cities : urban experience and the language of the novel / Robert Alter. - New Haven : Yale University Press, c2005. - xiii, 175 p. : ill. ;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Flaubert--the demise of the spectator -- Flaubert--urban poetics -- Dickens--the realism of metaphor -- Dickens--intimations of apocalypse -- Bely--phantasmatic city -- Woolf--urban pastoral -- Joyce--metropolitan shuffle -- Kafka--suspicion and the city.
0300108028 (hbk. : alk. paper)
European fiction
European fiction
Cities and towns in literature.
801.95 ALT-I
Imagined cities : urban experience and the language of the novel / Robert Alter. - New Haven : Yale University Press, c2005. - xiii, 175 p. : ill. ;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Flaubert--the demise of the spectator -- Flaubert--urban poetics -- Dickens--the realism of metaphor -- Dickens--intimations of apocalypse -- Bely--phantasmatic city -- Woolf--urban pastoral -- Joyce--metropolitan shuffle -- Kafka--suspicion and the city.
0300108028 (hbk. : alk. paper)
European fiction
European fiction
Cities and towns in literature.
801.95 ALT-I