A Mirror in the Roadway: Literature and the Real World

by Morris Dickstein

Book Overview

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 na ve notion of realism. Instead, modern writers experimented with creative forms of invention and dislocation. Deconstructive theorists went even further, questioning whether literature had any real reference to a world outside its own language, while traditional historians...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691119961
• ISBN13: 9780691119960
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.3"