Alter, Robert.

Imagined cities urban experience and the language of the novel / [electronic resource] : Robert Alter. - New Haven : Yale University Press, c2005. - xiii, 175 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

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.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2009.
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European fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
European fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Cities and towns in literature.


Electronic books.

PN3352.C5 / A48 2005eb

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