Research Catalog

Title

A concise companion to realism / edited by Matthew Beaumont.

Publication

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

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Details

Additional Authors

Beaumont, Matthew, 1972-

Description

xxi, 297 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Blackwell concise companions to literature and culture

Uniform Title

• Adventures in realism.
• Blackwell concise companions to literature and culture.

Subject

• English literature > 19th century > History and criticism
• English literature > 20th century > History and criticism
• Realism in literature
• Realism in art
• Realism in motion pictures
• Realism

Note

• Updated ed. of: Adventures in realism. 2007.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9781444332070 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1444332074 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9781405135771 (alk. paper)
• 1405135778 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2009038960

OCLC

• 454363520
• SCSB-12598310

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library