Beaumont

Adventures in Realism

Herausgeber: Beaumont, Matthew

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Produktbeschreibung

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 iek and Fredric Jameson, this wide-ranging volume: * Provides the historical, cultural, intellectual, and literary contexts necessary to understand developments in realism * Addresses the artistic mediums and technologies such as painting and film that have helped shape the way we perceive reality * Explores literary and pictorial sub-genres such as naturalism and socialist realism. Each section concludes with a short bibliography and a guide to further reading.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 624g
• ISBN-13: 9781405135771
• ISBN-10: 1405135778
• Artikelnr.: 22961862

Autorenporträt

Matthew Beaumont is Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature in the Department of English at University College, London. He is the author of Utopia Ltd.: Ideologies of Social Dreaming in England 1870-1900 (2005), and has edited Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward for Oxford World's Classics.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations.
Notes on Contributors.
Foreword by Rachel Bowlby (University College London).
Acknowledgments.
Introduction: Reclaiming Realism: Matthew Beaumont (University College
London).
1. Literary Realism Reconsidered: "The world in its length and breadth":
George Levine (Rutgers University).
2. Realist Synthesis in the Nineteenth Century Novel: "That unity which
lies in the selection of our keenest consciousness": Simon Dentith
(University of Gloucestershire).
3. Space, Mobility, and the Novel: "The spirit of place is a great
reality": Josephine McDonagh (Oxford University).
4. Naturalism: "Dirt and horror pure and simple": Sally Ledger (Birkbeck
College, University of.
London).
5. Realism before and after Photography: "The fantastical form of a
relation among things": Nancy Armstrong (Brown University).
6. The Realist Aesthetic in Painting: "Serious and committed, ironic and
brutal, sincere and full of poetry": Andrew Hemingway (University College
London).
7. Interrupted Dialogues of Realism and Modernism: "The fact of new forms
of life, already born and active": Esther Leslie (Birkbeck College,
University of London).
8. Socialist Realism: "To depict reality in its revolutionary development":
Brandon Taylor (University of Southampton).
9. Realism, Modernism, and Photography: "At last, at last the mask has been
torn away'": John Roberts (University of Wolverhampton).
10. Cinematic Realism: "A recreation of the world in its own image": Laura
Marcus (University of Sussex).
11. The Current of Critical Irrealism: "A moonlit enchanted night": Michael
Löwy (National Center for Scientific Research, Paris and École des Hautes
Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris).
12. Psychoanalysis and the Lacanian Real: "Strange shapes of the unwarped
primal world": Slavoj iek (University of Ljubljana and Birkbeck College,
University of London).
13. Feminist Theory and the Return of the Real: "What we really want most
out of realism ...": Helen Small (Pembroke College, Oxford).
14. Realism and Anti-Realism in Contemporary Philosophy: "What's truth got
to do with it?": Christopher Norris (Cardiff University).
15. A Note on Literary Realism in Conclusion: Fredric Jameson (Duke
University).
Index

Rezensionen

"Adventures in Realism is an exciting and necessary book. Itcollects together a stunning array of essays that, bothindividually and as a whole, show why we need to consider thenature and importance of realism. The volume encourages us to thinkthrough the concept both in relation to its mid-nineteenth centuryorigins, and today's philosophical discussions; to see itboth as manifested in specific literary or artistic forms and as amore abstract way of figuring our place within the material world.Matthew Beaumont should be congratulated in placing hiscontributors into such effective dialogue with one another: indoing so, he has returned realism to the center of historical,aesthetic, and political debate."
Kate Flint, Rutgers University

"Every new generation of critics and scholars must come to termsin its own ways with the paradoxes of realism. Realism is a periodstyle, but at the same time it is a perennial motive in literature,art, film, and other media. Realism purports to represent things asthey are, or were, but at the same time it is a constitutive set ofconventions that tells people in a given time and place what is tobe taken as real. This distinguished collection of essaysbrilliantly articulates these paradoxes for our own time."
J.Hillis Miller, University of California at Irvine

"What a wonderfully wide and deep and pushing inspection ofrealisms (and irrealisms) in history, in theory, in practice.Here's realism, then and now, cannily philosophized,politicized, feminized, psychologized. Here are so many ofrealism's practitioners, its aesthetic friends and enemies,the missionaries and also the scoffers, being heard and watched asthey engage with their chosen media - novels, plays,paintings, photographs, films, buildings. It is, I think, asserious, engaging, educating a look at the large realist project ascould well be assembled."
Valentine Cunningham, Corpus Christi College, Oxford

"Beaumont's introduction, 'Reclaiming Realism,' pinpointsthe purpose of this collection. Realism fell victim to postmoderndiscourse; Beaumont and his fellow contributors wish to restoreit."
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