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Imagined cities : urban experience and the language of the novel / Robert Alter.
LIBRA PN3352.C5 A48 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alter, Robert.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- European fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- European fiction.
- European fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- Cities and towns in literature.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 175 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2005]
- Summary:
- A literary investigation of how the modern metropolis--intoxicating, disturbing, powerful--changed perceptions and irrevocably altered the Western imagination.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-163) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0300108028
- OCLC:
- 57000941
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