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Concise Companion Realism

Beschreibung

A Concise Companion to Realism offers a scholarly yet accessible introduction to realism as it has evolved since the 19th century. Comprising 17 newly-commissioned essays written by a distinguished group of contributors, including Slavoj Zizek, Fredric Jameson and Terry Eagleton, 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.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Concise Companions to Literature and Culture
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 470g
• ISBN-13: 9781444332070
• ISBN-10: 1444332074
• Artikelnr.: 28102681

Rezensionen

"All great works of art, literary and visual, tend to have somekind of enduring claim to realism. The excellent contributors tothis volume investigate with energy and precision the manydifferent epistemological, historical and theoretical issues whichcan arise from such claims, for the novel, journalism, painting,cinema and still photography. They write from many different pointsof view, with a wide historical perspective and through well chosenexamples - but have been cleverly edited into dialogue with oneanother. The aims of naturalism, socialist realism and feminism,and the changes brought about by modernism, for example, areilluminatingly analysed. This is the way to make progress on anyphilosophical issue, and the reader will enjoy taking part in thedebate to the end."
--Christopher Butler, University of Oxford