Motives for Fiction by RA Alter
English | 1 July 1990 | ISBN: 0674587626 | 248 Pages | PDF | 2 MB
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.