Author: Polhemus, Robert M. ; & Henkle, Rober B.; editors:
Title: Critical Reconstructions : The Relationship of Fiction and Life
Description: Stanford, Stanford University Press, (1994). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xii, 296 pp. Minor rubbing. Slight top page-corner bump. VG. ¶ Contains 12 papers. Includes: Tzvetan Todorov "Fictions & Truths"; M.H. Levenson "The Private Life of a Public Form: Freud, Fantasy, & the Novel"; R.M. Polhemus "Comic & Erotic Faith Meet Faith in the Child: Charles Dickens's 'The Old Curiosity Shop' ('The Old Cupiosity Shape')" ; R.B. Henkle "The Crisis of Representation in 'Dombey & Son'"; J. Bender " Impersonal Violence: The Penetrating Gaze & the Field of Narrative in ' Caleb Williams'"; G. Dekker "James & Stevenson: The Mixed Current of Realism & Romance"; W.H. Chace "Joycean Realism"; J. Frank "The Making of 'Crime & Punishment'"; T.C. Moser "Faulkner's Muse: Speculations on the Genesis of 'The Sound & the Fury'"; J.McMaster "Emma Watson: Jane Austen's Uncompleted Heroine"; J.H. Raleigh "' The Finest & Noblest Book of Men in War': Frederic Manning's 'Her Privates We'"; Edward W. Said "Travelling Theory Reconsidered".

Keywords: Literary Criticism, Critical, Fiction Technique, Reality, Realism, Truth, Narration, Rhetoric, Literature