Imagined cities : urban experience and the language of the novel / Robert Alter.
Imagined cities : urban experience and the language of the novel / Robert Alter.
Imagined cities : urban experience and the language of the novel / Robert Alter.
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New Haven : Yale University Press, c2005.
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N809.39321/1
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English
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p. cm.
Contents
1. Flaubert : the demise of the spectator -- 2. Flaubert : urban poetics -- 3. Dickens : the realism of metaphor -- 4. Dickens : intimations of apocalypse -- 5. Bely : phantasmatic city -- 6. Woolf : urban pastoral -- 7. Joyce : metropolitan shuttle -- 8. Kafka : suspicion and the city.
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New Haven : Yale University Press, c2005.
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Connecticut
Date Published
c2005.
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"In Imagined Cities, Robert Alter traces the arc of literary development triggered by the runaway growth of urban centers from the early nineteenth century through the first two decades of the twentieth. As new technologies and arrangements of public and private space changed the ways people experienced time and space, the urban panorama became les...
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Imagined cities : urban experience and the language of the novel / Robert Alter.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N809.39321/1
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74VKqv6WpNyg
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKqv6WpNyg
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0300108028 :
9780300108026 (cloth : alk. paper)
0300108028 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780300108026 :
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809.39321732
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991020203759702626
