In The Realistic Imagination, George Levine argues that the Victorian realists and the later modernists were in fact doing similar things in their fiction: they were trying to use language to get beyond language. Levine sees the history of the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century novel as a continuing process in which each generation of writers struggled to escape the grip of convention and attempted to create new language to express their particular sense of reality.
As these attempts hardened into new conventions, they generated new attempts to break free.
| ISBN: | 9780226475516 |
| Publication date: | 14th January 2010 |
| Author: | George Levine |
| Publisher: | The University of Chicago Press an imprint of University of Chicago Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 368 pages |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers |
In The Realistic Imagination, George Levine argues that the Victorian realists and the later modernists were in fact doing similar things in their fiction: they were trying to use language to get beyond language. Levine sees the history of the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century novel as a continuing process in which each generation of writers struggled to escape the grip of convention and attempted to create new language to express their particular sense of reality.
The Realistic Imagination features in the following genres: Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
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The Realistic Imagination was written by George Levine and published by The University of Chicago Press an imprint of University of Chicago Press
The Realistic Imagination has 368 pages