| Description |
1 online resource (170 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
A real madeleine is a work of art -- Salammbo : three rough stones beneath a rainy sky -- The sacred fount : the case of the man who became extraordinarily -- Amusing -- The ambassadors : what he saw was exactly the right thing -- Lolita : a beautiful, banal, eden-red apple -- A simple heart : Felicite and the holy parrot. |
| Summary |
Fiction, far from being the opposite of truth, is wholly bent on finding it out, and writing novels is a way to know the real world as objectively as possible. In Five Fictions in Search of Truth, Myra Jehlen develops this idea through readings of works by Flaubert, James, and Nabokov. She invokes Proust's famous search for lost memory as the exemplary literary process, which strives, whatever its materials, for a true knowledge. In Salammbo, Flaubert digs up Carthage; in The Ambassadors, James plumbs the examined life and touches at its limits; while in Lolita, Nabokov traces a search for tru. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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1800-1999 |
| Indexed Term |
JSTOR-DDA |
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Fiction 20th century History and criticism |
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Fiction 19th century History and criticism |
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Multi-User. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Jehlen, Myra. Five fictions in search of truth. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, ©2008 (DLC) 2008002145 |
| ISBN |
9781400828913 (electronic book) |
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1400828910 (electronic book) |
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9780691136127 |
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0691136122 |
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