Factual Fictions: The Origins of the English NovelColumbia University Press, 1983 - 245 pàgines "Nowadays, most readers take the intersection between fiction and fact for granted. We've developed a faculty for pretending that even the most bizarre literary inventions are, for the nonce, real. . . . The value of Davis's book is that it explores the h |
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