The Broken Estate by James Wood
Essays on Literature and Belief
A collection of critical essays arguing that the novel’s moral imagination, careful attention to language and form, and capacity for nuanced characterization are vital resources in a largely secular age; it defends realism and close reading against trendy theoretical fashions and sentimental simplifications, examines how narrative techniques render human consciousness and ethical complexity, and shows how serious fiction can both reveal and help mend the cultural and spiritual fractures of modern life.
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- 1999
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- British
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- English
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