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Adventures in realism
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- Creator
- edited by Matthew Beaumont
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2007
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 280 pages) : illustrations
- ISBNs
- 1405135778, 9781405135771, 9786610932566, 047069131X, 178268669X, 9786612122767, 9781405177450, 1282122762, 0470692030, 1405177454, 1405182016, 9781405182010, 1280932562, 9780470692035
- OCLC
- ocn244174733, ocm76064671, ocn476085263
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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 -- 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 Lacanisn 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 -- A note on literary realism in conclusion / Fredric Jameson