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001 2004053514
003 DLC
005 20070726082958.0
008 040729s2005 nju b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2004053514
020 $a0691119961 (alk. paper)
020 $a9780691119960 (alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm56103751
035 $a(OCoLC)56103751
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050 00 $aPN771$b.D55 2005
082 00 $a809/.04$222
100 1 $aDickstein, Morris.
245 12 $aA mirror in the roadway :$bliterature and the real world /$cMorris Dickstein.
260 $aPrinceton, N.J. :$bPrinceton University Press,$cc2005.
300 $axv, 280 p. ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [259]-270) and index.
505 0 $aA mirror in the roadway -- American realism: the sense of time and place -- The city as text: New York and the American writer -- The second city (Chicago writers) -- Upton Sinclair and the urban jungle -- A radical comedian (Sinclair Lewis) -- The magic of contradictions: Willa Cather's lost lady -- A different world: from realism to modernism -- The authority of failure (F. Scott Fitzgerald) -- Edmund Wilson: three phases -- A glint of malice (Mary McCarthy) -- Silence, exile, cunning -- The modern writer as exile -- An outsider in his own life (Samuel Beckett) -- Kafka in love -- Hope against hope: Orwell and the future -- Magical realism -- The pornography of power (Gabriel García Márquez) -- A fishy tale (Gunter Grass) -- Talking dogs and pioneers (S.Y. Agnon) -- Postwar fiction in context: genealogies -- Sea change: Céline in America -- The complex fate of the Jewish American writer -- The face in the mirror: the eclipse of distance in contemporary fiction -- Ordinary people: Carver, Ford, and blue-collar realism -- Textures of memory -- Late Bellow: thinking about the dead -- Saints and sinners: William Kennedy's Albany cycle -- Reading and history -- Damaged literacy: the decay of reading -- Finding the right words (Irving Howe) -- The social uses of fiction (Martha Nussbaum) -- The limits of historicism: literary theory and historical understanding.
650 0 $aLiterature, Modern$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0654/2004053514-d.html
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0654/2004053514-t.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0734/2004053514-b.html