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2Elizabeth Hicks, The Still Life in the Fiction of A. S. Byatt, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010, p. 2.
3J. George Becker," Introduction", in J. George Becker, ed. , Documents of Modern Literary Realism, Princeton:Princeton University Press, 1963, pp. 30 -31.
4Ian Watt, The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1963,p.29.
5Georg Lukacs, "Narrate or Describe?", in Writer and Critic, and Other Essays, trans. Arthur Kahn, London:Merlin, 1970, pp. 110-148, p. 147.
6George Levine, The Realistic lmagmation : English Fiction from Frankenstein to Lady Chatterley, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981, p.12.
7Elizabeth Hicks, The Still Life in the Fiction of A. S. Byatt, p. 2.
8A. S. Byatt, The Virgin in the Garden, New York: Vintage, 1992, pp. 92 -93.
9A.S. Byatt, "Interview with Juliet A. Dusirrberre", in Janet Todd, ed. , Women Writers Talking, New York: Holmes & Meier, 1983, p. 183.
10A.S. Byatt, "Interview with Nicolas Tredell", in Nicolas Tredell, ed. , Conversations with Critics, Manchester: Sheep Meadow, 1994, pp. 65 -66.
