TY - BOOK AU - Alter,Robert TI - Partial magic: the novel as a self-conscious genre SN - 0520027558 U1 - 809.3 ALT PY - 1975/// CY - Berkeley PB - University of California Press KW - Psychological fiction KW - History and criticism KW - Self-consciousness (Awareness) in literature KW - Realism in literature KW - Fiction KW - Technique N1 - Gratis Rs.3192/-; Includes bibliographical references and index; The mirror of knighthood and the world of mirrors -- Sterne and the nostalgia for reality -- Diderot's Jacques: this is and is not a story -- The self-conscious novel in eclipse -- The modernist revival of self-conscious fiction -- Nabokov's game of worlds -- The inexhaustible genre ER -