Partial Magic
The Novel as a Self-Conscious Genre
Realism in literature
Literary form
Psychological fiction
Technique
Fiction, general
History and criticism
Fiction
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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