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The Reality of the Unreal
Judit Borbély
其他書名
The City as Metaphor in Henry James and His Contemporaries
出版Akademiai Kiado, 2005
主題Literary Criticism / American / GeneralLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
ISBN963058199X9789630581998
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=lfraHDm-V8sC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋In the nineteenth century the great cities underwent the most conspicuous transformation. The beauties and the dark side of urban existence soon came to be one of the central issues in contemporary literature and art. In The Reality of the Unreal, the works of four great English writers of the time are analyzed, with the focus on their representation of the city. Through the concrete image of London and Paris around the turn of the century as well as through the metaphorical role of the city as a concept, this booka new volume in the Philosophiae Doctores seriesprovides differing views about the age, as seen by H. G. Wells, George Gissing, Joseph Conrad, and Henry James. The books analysis arrives at the complex image of civilization at the end of the nineteenth century.