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Imagined cities : urban experience and the language of the novel / Robert Alter.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2005.Description: xiii, 175 p. : illISBN:
  • 0300108028 (hbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 801.95 ALT-I
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Contents:
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.
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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.

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