Partial magic : the novel as a self-conscious genre / Robert Alter.

By:

Alter, Robert

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, 1975.Description: xvi, 248 p. ; 23 cm. Hard BoundISBN:

0520027558

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

809.3 ALT

Contents:

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.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	H.T. Parekh Library	SIAS Collection	Meenakshi Mukherjee Books	809.3 ALT (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		K4360

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.

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