Imagined cities [electronic resource] : urban experience and the language of the novel / Robert Alter.
Publication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2005.Description: xiii, 175 p. : ill. ; 22 cmSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:- 809.3/9321732 22
- PN3352.C5 A48 2005eb
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. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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