Alternative paradigms of literary realism / Don Adams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adams, Don, 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fitzgerald, Penelope.

Firbank, Ronald, 1886-1926.

Purdy, James.

Realism in literature.

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

American fiction.

English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Bowles, Jane, 1917-1973--Criticism and interpretation.

Bowles, Jane.

Bowles, Jane, 1917-1973.

Criticism and interpretation.

Purdy, James--Criticism and interpretation.

Green, Henry, 1905-1973--Criticism and interpretation.

Green, Henry.

Green, Henry, 1905-1973.

Firbank, Ronald, 1886-1926--Criticism and interpretation.

Firbank, Ronald.

Fitzgerald, Penelope--Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

200 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Summary:

This book develops alternative paradigms of literary realism with which to reexamine a group of crucial but marginalized twentieth-century writers who have been misread as conventional mimetic realists. Don Adams reveals how allegory, pastoral, and parable are used by these writers as an alternative to mimesis. By working in and through these devices, these writers created virtual-potential realities that relate to conventional actuality in complex and challenging ways.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230621862

0230621864

OCLC:

320525132