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Partial Magic

The Novel as a Self-Conscious Genre

by Robert Alter

1975 248 pages eng

This new work by an imaginative critic of vigorous intellectual powers radically revises our understanding of the novel as a genre. Against a variety of critical stances, from Marxist and Freudian to Jamesian and Leavisite, Mr. Alter argues that "realism" is by no means the exclusive generic aim of …

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