| Description |
xxi, 297 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
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Blackwell concise companions to literature and culture |
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Blackwell concise companions to literature and culture.
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| Contents |
Foreword / Rachel Bowlby -- Introduction : reclaiming realism / Matthew Beaumont -- Literary realism reconsidered : "the world in its length and breadth" / George Levine -- Realist synthesis in the nineteenth-century novel : "that unity which lies in the selection of our keenest consciousness" / Simon Dentith -- Space, mobility, and the novel : "the spirit of place is a great reality" / Josephine McDonagh -- Fictions of the real : "all truth with malice in it" / Terry Eagleton -- Naturalism : "dirt and horror pure and simple" / Sally Ledger -- Realism before and after photography : "the fantastical form of a relation among things" / Nancy Armstrong -- The realist aesthetic in painting : "serious and committed, ironic and brutal, sincere and full of poetry" / Andrew Hemingway -- Interrupted dialogues of realism and modernism : "the fact of new forms of life, already born and active" / Esther Leslie -- Socialist realism : "to depict reality in its revolutionary development" / Brandon Taylor -- Realism, modernism, and photography : "at last, at last the mask has been torn away" / John Roberts -- Cinematic realism : "a recreation of the world in its own image" / Laura Marcus -- The current of critical irrealism : "a moonlit enchanted night" / Michael Löwy -- Psychoanalysis and the Lacanian real : "strange shapes of the unwarped primal world" / Slavoj Žižek -- Feminist theory and the return of the real : "what we really want most out of realism-- " / Helen Small -- Realism and anti-realism in contemporary philosophy : "what's truth got to do with it?" / Christopher Norris -- Afterword : a note on literary realism / Fredric Jameson |
| Notes |
Updated ed. of: Adventures in realism. 2007 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Realism in literature.
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Realism in art.
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Realism in motion pictures.
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Realism.
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| Author |
Beaumont, Matthew, 1972-
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| LC no. |
2009038960 |
| ISBN |
9781444332070 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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1444332074 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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9781405135771 (alk. paper) |
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1405135778 (alk. paper) |
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