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Motives for Fiction
Robert Alter
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Motives for Fiction
Robert Alter
“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.
248 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | 1984 |
| ISBN13 | 9780674587625 |
| Publishers | Harvard University Press |
| Pages | 248 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 230 × 25 mm · 544 g |
| Language | English |
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