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Georg Lukács Reinvented : Realism in Contemporary Culture.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Geczy, Adam.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (233 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2026.
- Summary:
- The first study to make use of Lukacsian realism theory to understand contemporary culture.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Halftitle page
- Series page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Illustrations
- Introduction
- 1 Reification and Digital Alienation
- 2 Mass Hypnosis, Irrationalism and Political Extremism
- The Grand Hotel Abyss
- Nietzsche as grand irrationalist
- 3 Realism and the Social Impulse
- A short history of realism
- The social impulse
- 4 Realism and Its Enemies
- Naturalism
- Abstraction and (new) materialism
- Expressionism and social media
- 5 Critical Realism
- From great to critical realism
- The Adornostreit
- A problem of character: types
- Solzhenitsyn: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
- 6 The Demonic Character, Passion and Misunderstanding
- Goethe and demonic character
- Creation as Luciferian
- Misunderstanding, morality and pathology
- 7 Historical Novels (and Films and TV)
- History, time and duration
- The beginning of the historical novel
- The historic novel after the 'classic' phase
- 8 Fantastical and Non-Euclidian Worlds
- Fairytales
- From fairytale to the fantastical
- World-building
- CONCLUSION The Realism of Stand-Up Comedy
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781350599536
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