All Is True : The Claims and Strategies of Realist Fiction
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Overview
'All is true, ' realist writers would say of their work, to which critics now respond: All is art and artifice. Offering a new approach to reading nineteenth-century realist fiction, this author seeks to reconcile these contradictory claims. In doing so, she clarifies the deceptions, appropriations, intentions, and ultimately the power of literary realism. All is True puts forward an alternative to the conventional polarized reading of the realist text--which emerges here as neither strictly an imitation of an extraneous model nor simply a web of words but a brilliantly complex imbrication of the two. This book promises to alter not only our view of realist fiction but our understanding of how we read it.
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- ISBN-13: 9780822316466
- ISBN-10: 0822316463
- Publisher: Duke University Press
- Publish Date: October 1995
- Dimensions: 9.13 x 6.04 x 0.69 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.9 pounds
- Page Count: 256
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