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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.

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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

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

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