A concise companion to realism / edited by Matthew Beaumont.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beaumont, Matthew, 1972-

Series:

Blackwell concise companions to literature and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

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

Realism in literature.

Realism in art.

Realism in motion pictures.

Realism.

Physical Description:

xxi, 297 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Edition:

Paperback edition, revised edition.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

Summary:

Adventures in Realism offers a scholarly yet accessible introduction to realism as it has evolved since the 19th century. Comprising 16 newly-commissioned essays written by a distinguished group of contributors, including Slavoj?i?ek and Fredric Jameson, this wide-ranging volume: Provides the historical, cultural, intellectual, and literary contexts necessary to understand developments in realismAddresses the artistic mediums and technologies such as painting and film that have helped shape the way we perceive realityExplores literary and pictorial sub-genres such as naturalism and socialist realism.Each section concludes with a short bibliography and a guide to further reading.

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781444332070

1444332074

OCLC:

454363520