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A Mirror in the Roadway: Literature and the Real World
A Mirror in the Roadway Literature and the Real World
Author: Morris Dickstein
In a famous passage in The Red and the Black, the French writer Stendhal described the novel as a mirror being carried along a roadway. In the twentieth century this was derided as a naïve notion of realism. Instead, modern writers experimented with creative forms of invention and dislocation. Deconstructive theorists went even further, q...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780691130330
ISBN-10: 0691130337
Publication Date: 2/5/2007
Pages: 304
Edition: New
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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