Using the traditional genres of allegory, pastoral, and parable, this book develops alternative paradigms of literary realism with which to reexamine a group of crucial but marginalized 20th century writers who have been misread as conventional mimetic realists. INDICE: - Truth as a Matter of Style: Alternative Paradigms of Literary Realism - One is Never Quite Totally in the World: Jane Bowles' Allegorical Realism - Whatever Is, Is Wrong: James Purdy's Allegorical Realism - Some Imaginary Vienna: Ronald Firbank's Pastoral Realism - To Create a Life Which Is Not: Henry Green's Pastoral-Organic Realism - There's a Providence Not so Far Away from Us: Penelope Fitzgerald's Parablistic Realism
- ISBN: 978-0-230-62186-2
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 224
- Fecha Publicación: 29/01/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés