Beaumont Adventures in Realism

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-69131-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Concise Companions to Literature and Culture

Adventures in Realism offers an accessible introduction torealism as it has evolved since the 19th century. Though focused onliterature and literary theory, the significance of technology andthe visual arts is also addressed.
* * Comprises 16 newly-commissioned essays written by adistinguished group of contributors, including Slavoj Zizek andFrederic Jameson
* Provides the historical, cultural, intellectual, and literarycontexts necessary to understand developments in realism
* Addresses the artistic mediums and technologies such aspainting and film that have helped shape the way we perceivereality
* Explores literary and pictorial sub-genres, such as naturalismand socialist realism
* Includes a brief bibliography and suggestions for furtherreading at the end of each section

Autoren/Hrsg.

Beaumont, Matthew

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations.
Notes on Contributors.
Foreword by Rachel Bowlby (University College London).
Acknowledgments.
Introduction: Reclaiming Realism: Matthew Beaumont (UniversityCollege London).
1. Literary Realism Reconsidered: "The world in its lengthand breadth": George Levine (Rutgers University).
2. Realist Synthesis in the Nineteenth Century Novel:"That unity which lies in the selection of our keenestconsciousness": Simon Dentith (University ofGloucestershire).
3. Space, Mobility, and the Novel: "The spirit of place isa great reality": Josephine McDonagh (Oxford University).
4. Naturalism: "Dirt and horror pure and simple":Sally Ledger (Birkbeck College, University of.
London).
5. Realism before and after Photography: "The fantasticalform of a relation among things": Nancy Armstrong (BrownUniversity).
6. The Realist Aesthetic in Painting: "Serious andcommitted, ironic and brutal, sincere and full of poetry":Andrew Hemingway (University College London).
7. Interrupted Dialogues of Realism and Modernism: "Thefact of new forms of life, already born and active": EstherLeslie (Birkbeck College, University of London).
8. Socialist Realism: "To depict reality in itsrevolutionary development": Brandon Taylor (University ofSouthampton).
9. Realism, Modernism, and Photography: "At last, at lastthe mask has been torn away'": John Roberts (Universityof Wolverhampton).
10. Cinematic Realism: "A recreation of the world in itsown image": Laura Marcus (University of Sussex).
11. The Current of Critical Irrealism: "A moonlitenchanted night": Michael Löwy (National Center forScientific Research, Paris and École des Hautes Études enSciences Sociales, Paris).
12. Psychoanalysis and the Lacanian Real: "Strange shapesof the unwarped primal world": Slavoj Zizek(University of Ljubljana and Birkbeck College, University ofLondon).
13. Feminist Theory and the Return of the Real: "What wereally want most out of realism ...": Helen Small(Pembroke College, Oxford).
14. Realism and Anti-Realism in Contemporary Philosophy:"What's truth got to do with it?": ChristopherNorris (Cardiff University).
15. A Note on Literary Realism in Conclusion: Fredric Jameson(Duke University).
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Matthew Beaumont is Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature in the Department of English at University College, London. He is the author of Utopia Ltd.: Ideologies of Social Dreaming in England 1870-1900 (2005), and has edited Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward for Oxford World's Classics.