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082 0 0 _a801.95 ALT-I
100 1 _aAlter, Robert.
245 1 0 _aImagined cities :
_burban experience and the language of the novel /
_cRobert Alter.
260 _aNew Haven :
_bYale University Press,
_cc2005.
300 _axiii, 175 p. :
_bill. ;
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aFlaubert--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.
650 0 _aEuropean fiction
650 0 _aEuropean fiction
650 0 _aCities and towns in literature.
856 4 1 _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip054/2004026801.html
856 4 2 _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0617/2004026801-b.html
856 4 2 _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0617/2004026801-d.html
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