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Wednesday, September 9, 2015

Motives for Fiction by RA Alter




Motives for Fiction by RA Alter


English | 1 July 1990 | ISBN: 0674587626 | 248 Pages | PDF | 2 MB




For many serious readers, Robert Alter writes in his preface, the novel still matters, and I have tried here to suggest some reasons why that should be so. In his wide-ranging discussion, Alter examines the imitation of reality in fiction to find out why mimesis has become problematic yet continues to engage us deeply as readers.