Alternative Paradigms of Literary Realism

2009
ISBN: 978-0-230-62186-2
Verlag: Springer Nature B.V.

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 395 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Adams, D.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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