A Mirror in the Roadway: Literature and the Real World

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2007
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Reinterprets Stendhal's metaphor and tracks the different worlds of an array of twentieth-century writers ranging from realists to wildly inventive postwar writers. This book puts forward an argument that fiction yields rich insight into its subject, and that literature can also be a form of historical understanding.

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Reinterprets Stendhal's metaphor and tracks the different worlds of an array of twentieth-century writers ranging from realists to wildly inventive postwar writers. This book puts forward an argument that fiction yields rich insight into its subject, and that literature can also be a form of historical understanding.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 05 Feb 2007
ISBN 10: 0691130337
ISBN 13: 9780691130330