Partial Magic: The Novel as a Self-conscious Genre |
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ambiguous artifice artistic aware Balzac Becky beginning Borges century Cervantes chapter Charles Kinbote Cid Hamete comic Confidence-Man consciousness contemporary course critical culture Dalloway death dialectic Diderot Don Quixote double dream elaborate existence experience fact fantasy fictional world figure finally Fleurissoire genre Gide hand human illusion imagination invention Jacques John Shade Joyce Julius Kinbote Kinbote's kind Lafcadio language literary convention literature Little Dorrit living lovers Lucien master means Melville metaphor mimesis mirror modern moral Nabokov narrative narrator nature nineteenth-century novelist observed ontological Pale Fire paradox parodistic parody passage perception personages play poem poet poetry possibilities precisely protagonist puppet reader realist reality reflection Rocinante role Sancho scene seems self-conscious novel sense Shade society Stendhal Sterne Sterne's story structure tale technique Thackeray things tion Tom Jones tradition translation Trim's Tristram Shandy truth turn ultimate Vautrin verbal Virginia Woolf Vladimir Nabokov whole words writer Zembla