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100 1 $aDickstein, Morris.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88137519
245 12 $aA mirror in the roadway :$bliterature and the real world /$cMorris Dickstein.
260 $aPrinceton, N.J. :$bPrinceton University Press,$c[2005], ©2005.
300 $axv, 280 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [259]-270) and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction : a mirror in the roadway --$tThe city as text : New York and the American writer --$tThe Second City (Chicago writers) --$tUpton Sinclair and the urban jungle --$tA radical comedian (Sinclair Lewis) --$tThe magic of contradictions : Willa Cather's lost lady --$tThe authority of failure (F. Scott Fitzgerald) --$tEdmund Wilson : three phases --$tA glint of malice (Mary McCarthy) --$tSilence, exile, cunning --$tThe modern writer as exile --$tAn outsider in his own life (Samuel Beckett) --$tKafka in love --$tHope against hope : Orwell and the future --$tMagical realism --$tThe pornography of power (Gabriel Garcia Marquez) --$tA fishy tale (Gunter Grass) --$tTalking dogs and pioneers (S. Y. Agnon) --$tSea change : Celine in America --$tThe complex fate of the Jewish American writer --$tThe face in the mirror : the eclipse of distance in contemporary fiction --$tOrdinary people : Carver, Ford, and blue-collar realism --$tTextures of memory --$tLate Bellow : thinking about the dead --$tSaints and sinners : William Kennedy's Albany cycle --$tDamaged literacy : the decay of reading --$tFinding the right words (Irving Howe) --$tThe social uses of fiction (Martha Nussbaum) --$tThe limits of historicism : literary theory and historical understanding.
520 1 $a"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 naive notion of realism. Instead, modern writers experimented with creative forms of invention and dislocation." "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 Beckett, to wildly inventive postwar writers like Saul Bellow, Gunter Grass, Mary McCarthy, George Orwell, Philip Roth, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Dickstein argues that fiction will always yield rich insight into its subject, and that literature can also be a form of historical understanding."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aLiterature, Modern$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85077561
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