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Author: Katherine Kearns
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1996-01-26
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780521496063
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA challenging rethinking of traditional theories, and redefinition of the genre, of realism.
Author: Alison Byerly
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780521581165
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book confronts a significant paradox in the development of literary realism: the very novels that present themselves as purveyors and celebrants of direct, ordinary human experience also manifest an obsession with art that threatens to sabotage their Realist claims. Unlike previous studies of the role of visual art, or music, or theatre in Victorian literature, Realism, Representation, and the Arts in Nineteenth-Century Literature examines the juxtaposition of all of these arts in the works of Charlotte Brontë, William Thackeray, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and others. Alison Byerly combines close textual analysis with discussion of relevant ancillary topics to illuminate the place of different arts within nineteenth-century British culture. Her book, which also contains sixteen illustrations, represents an effort to bridge the growing gap between aesthetics and cultural studies.
Author: Pam Morris
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-06-02
Total Pages: 199
ISBN-13: 113458377X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA clear, reader-friendly guide to debates around realism, this guide is vital reading for students of literature, in particular those working on the realist novel.
Author: Daniel A. Novak
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008-05
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0521885256
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn illustrated study of the interactions between photographic technique and literary representation in the nineteenth century.
Author: Charles Moser
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1992-04-30
Total Pages: 724
ISBN-13: 9780521425674
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn updated edition of this comprehensive narrative history, first published in 1989, incorporating a new chapter on the latest developments in Russian literature and additional bibliographical information. The individual chapters are by well-known specialists, and provide chronological coverage from the medieval period on, giving particular attention to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and including extensive discussion of works written outside the Soviet Union. The book is accessible to students and non-specialists, as well as to scholars of literature, and provides a wealth of information.
Author: Dirk Göttsche
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2021-04-15
Total Pages: 834
ISBN-13: 9027260362
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFew literary phenomena are as elusive and yet as persistent as realism. While it responds to the perennial impulse to use literature to reflect on experience, it also designates a specific set of literary and artistic practices that emerged in response to Western modernity. Landscapes of Realism is a two-volume collaborative interdisciplinary exploration of this vast territory, bringing together leading-edge new criticism on the realist paradigms that were first articulated in nineteenth-century Europe but have since gone on globally to transform the literary landscape. Tracing the manifold ways in which these paradigms are developed, discussed and contested across time, space, cultures and media, this first volume tackles in its five core essays and twenty-five case studies such questions as why realism emerged when it did, why and how it developed such a transformative dynamic across languages, to what extent realist poetics remain central to art and popular culture after 1900, and how generally to reassess realism from a twenty-first-century comparative perspective.
Author: Rae Greiner
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2012-11-16
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 1421406535
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRae Greiner proposes that sympathy is integral to the form of the classic nineteenth-century realist novel. Following the philosophy of Adam Smith, Greiner argues that sympathy does more than foster emotional identification with others; it is a way of thinking along with them. By abstracting emotions, feelings turn into detached figures of speech that may be shared. Sympathy in this way produces realism; it is the imaginative process through which the real is substantiated. In Sympathetic Realism in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction Greiner shows how this imaginative process of sympathy is written into three novelistic techniques regularly associated with nineteenth-century fiction: metonymy, free indirect discourse, and realist characterization. She explores the work of sentimentalist philosophers David Hume, Adam Smith, and Jeremy Bentham and realist novelists Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Joseph Conrad, and Henry James. -- Adela Pinch, University of Michigan
Author: Monika Fludernik
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2019-12-16
Total Pages: 751
ISBN-13: 3110484994
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe study of narrative—the object of the rapidly growing discipline of narratology—has been traditionally concerned with the fictional narratives of literature, such as novels or short stories. But narrative is a transdisciplinary and transmedial concept whose manifestations encompass both the fictional and the factual. In this volume, which provides a companion piece to Tobias Klauk and Tilmann Köppe’s Fiktionalität: Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch, the use of narrative to convey true and reliable information is systematically explored across media, cultures and disciplines, as well as in its narratological, stylistic, philosophical, and rhetorical dimensions. At a time when the notion of truth has come under attack, it is imperative to reaffirm the commitment to facts of certain types of narrative, and to examine critically the foundations of this commitment. But because it takes a background for a figure to emerge clearly, this book will also explore nonfactual types of narratives, thereby providing insights into the nature of narrative fiction that could not be reached from the narrowly literary perspective of early narratology.
Author: Tanya Agathocleous
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 0521762642
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTraces the development of cosmopolitanism and the growing importance of the city in nineteenth-century literature.
Author: Steven Earnshaw
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2013-01-18
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 1847794041
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRealism is an essential concept in literary studies, yet for a variety of reasons it has not received the attention and clarity it deserves, often being dismissed as ‘too slippery’ to be of use. This accessible study remedies that failing for students and scholars of English Literature and Literary Theory alike, plainly setting out what realism is, the issues surrounding it, and its role in other major literary modes such as modernism and postmodernism. Beginning Realism gives detailed coverage of the nineteenth-century realist novel through its focus on novels by Gaskell, Eliot, Trollope, Dickens, Mrs Oliphant, Thackeray and Zola. As well as discussing ‘the novel’, the book also includes chapters on the use of realism in drama and poetry and a chapter on ‘the language of realism’, another aspect often overlooked in analysis of the concept.
