| The Realistic Imagination: English Fiction from Frankenstein to Lady Chatterly Revised Edition Contributor(s): Levine, George (Author) |
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ISBN: 0226475514 ISBN-13: 9780226475516 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $48.51 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 1983 Annotation: In "The Realistic Imagination", George Levine argues that the Victorian realists and the later modernists were in fact doing similar things in their fiction: they were trying to use language to get beyond language. Levine sees the history of the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century novel as a continuing process in which each generation of writers struggled to escape the grip of convention and attempted to create new language to express their particular sense of reality. As these attempts hardened into new conventions, they generated new attempts to break free. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Books & Reading |
| Dewey: 809 |
| LCCN: 80017444 |
| Physical Information: 0.85" H x 6.02" W x 9.04" (1.09 lbs) 368 pages |
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| Publisher Description: In The Realistic Imagination, George Levine argues that the Victorian realists and the later modernists were in fact doing similar things in their fiction: they were trying to use language to get beyond language. Levine sees the history of the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century novel as a continuing process in which each generation of writers struggled to escape the grip of convention and attempted to create new language to express their particular sense of reality. As these attempts hardened into new conventions, they generated new attempts to break free. |