LEADER 03501nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910451771903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-74066-7 010 $a9786611740665 010 $a0-300-12707-3 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300127072 035 $a(CKB)1000000000471746 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH23049395 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000176605 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11165769 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000176605 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10206027 035 $a(PQKB)10898104 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3419932 035 $a(DE-B1597)484915 035 $a(OCoLC)952732590 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300127072 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3419932 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10169958 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL174066 035 $a(OCoLC)923588609 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000471746 100 $a20041112d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aImagined cities$b[electronic resource] $eurban experience and the language of the novel /$fRobert Alter 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (208 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-300-10802-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aFlaubert--the demise of the spectator -- Flaubert--urban poetics -- Dickens--the realism of metaphor -- Dickens--intimations of apocalypse -- Bely--phantasmatic city -- Woolf--urban pastoral -- Joyce--metropolitan shuffle -- Kafka--suspicion and the city. 330 $aIn Imagined Cities, Robert Alter traces the arc of literary development triggered by the runaway growth of urban centers from the early nineteenth century through the first two decades of the twentieth. As new technologies and arrangements of public and private space changed the ways people experienced time and space, the urban panorama became less coherent-a metropolis defying traditional representation and definition, a vast jumble of shifting fragments and glimpses-and writers were compelled to create new methods for conveying the experience of the city.In a series of subtle and convincing interpretations of novels by Flaubert, Dickens, Bely, Woolf, Joyce, and Kafka, Alter reveals the ways the city entered the literary imagination. He shows how writers of diverse imaginative temperaments developed innovative techniques to represent shifts in modern consciousness. Writers sought more than a journalistic representation of city living, he argues, and to convey meaningfully the reality of the metropolis, the city had to be re-created or reimagined. His book probes the literary response to changing realities of the period and contributes significantly to our understanding of the history of the Western imagination. 606 $aEuropean fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEuropean fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aCities and towns in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEuropean fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEuropean fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aCities and towns in literature. 676 $a809.3/9321732 700 $aAlter$b Robert$0168752 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451771903321 996 $aImagined cities$92447133 997 $aUNINA