Using the traditional genres of allegory, pastoral, and parable, this book develops alternative paradigms of literary realism with which to reexamine a group of crucial but marginalized 20th century writers who have been misread as conventional mimetic realists.

Autorentext
DON ADAMS is an Associate Professor of English at Florida Atlantic University, USA and author of James Merrill's Poetic Quest.

Inhalt
Truth as a Matter of Style: Alternative Paradigms of Literary Realism One is Never Quite Totally in the World: Jane Bowles' Allegorical Realism Whatever Is, Is Wrong: James Purdy's Allegorical Realism Some Imaginary Vienna: Ronald Firbank's Pastoral Realism To Create a Life Which Is Not: Henry Green's Pastoral-Organic Realism There's a Providence Not so Far Away from Us: Penelope Fitzgerald's Parablistic Realism