Nineteenth-Century Literary Realism
Title | Nineteenth-Century Literary Realism PDF eBook |
Author | Katherine Kearns |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 326 |
Release | 1996-01-26 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780521496063 |
A challenging rethinking of traditional theories, and redefinition of the genre, of realism.
Realism, Representation, and the Arts in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Title | Realism, Representation, and the Arts in Nineteenth-Century Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Alison Byerly |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780521581165 |
This 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.
Landscapes of Realism
Title | Landscapes of Realism PDF eBook |
Author | Dirk Göttsche |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Pages | 834 |
Release | 2021-04-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9027260362 |
Few 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.
The Cambridge History of Russian Literature
Title | The Cambridge History of Russian Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Moser |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 724 |
Release | 1992-04-30 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521425674 |
An 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.
Realism, Photography and Nineteenth-Century Fiction
Title | Realism, Photography and Nineteenth-Century Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel A. Novak |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2008-05 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0521885256 |
An illustrated study of the interactions between photographic technique and literary representation in the nineteenth century.
Realism
Title | Realism PDF eBook |
Author | Pam Morris |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 199 |
Release | 2004-06-02 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 113458377X |
A 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.
Narrative Factuality
Title | Narrative Factuality PDF eBook |
Author | Monika Fludernik |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 728 |
Release | 2019-12-16 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3110484994 |
The 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.