Realism for the Masses

Realism for the Masses
Title Realism for the Masses PDF eBook
Author Chris Vials
Publisher Univ. Press of Mississippi
Pages 459
Release 2010-04-13
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1496800362

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Realism for the Masses is an exploration of how the concept of realism entered mass culture, and from there, how it tried to remake “America.” The literary and artistic creations of American realism are generally associated with the late nineteenth century. But this book argues that the aesthetic actually saturated American culture in the 1930s and 1940s and that the Left social movements of the period were in no small part responsible. The book examines the prose of Carlos Bulosan and H. T. Tsiang; the photo essays of Margaret Bourke-White in Life magazine; the bestsellers of Erskine Caldwell and Margaret Mitchell; the boxing narratives of Clifford Odets, Richard Wright, Nelson Algren; and the Hollywood boxing film, radio soap operas, and the domestic dramas of Lillian Hellman and Shirley Graham, and more. These writers and artists infused realist aesthetics into American mass culture to an unprecedented degree and also built on a tradition of realism in order to inject influential definitions of “the people” into American popular entertainment. Central to this book is the relationship between these mass cultural realisms and emergent notions of pluralism. Significantly, Vials identifies three nascent pluralisms of the 1930s and 1940s: the New Deal pluralism of “We're the People” in The Grapes of Wrath; the racially inclusive pluralism of Vice President Henry Wallace's “The People's Century”; and the proto-Cold War pluralism of Henry Luce's “The American Century.”

Ethics and Weapons of Mass Destruction

Ethics and Weapons of Mass Destruction
Title Ethics and Weapons of Mass Destruction PDF eBook
Author Sohail H. Hashmi
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 558
Release 2004-07-19
Genre History
ISBN 9780521545266

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The Masses Are Revolting

The Masses Are Revolting
Title The Masses Are Revolting PDF eBook
Author Zachary Samalin
Publisher Cornell University Press
Pages 476
Release 2021-09-15
Genre History
ISBN 1501756478

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The Masses Are Revolting reconstructs a pivotal era in the history of affect and emotion, delving into an archive of nineteenth-century disgust to show how this negative emotional response came to play an outsized, volatile part in the emergence of modern British society. Attending to the emotion's socially productive role, Zachary Samalin highlights concrete scenes of Victorian disgust, from sewer tunnels and courtrooms to operating tables and alleyways. Samalin focuses on a diverse set of nineteenth-century writers and thinkers—including Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Thomas Hardy, George Gissing, and Charlotte Brontë—whose works reflect on the shifting, unstable meaning of disgust across the period. Samalin elaborates this cultural history of Victorian disgust in specific domains of British society, ranging from the construction of London's sewer system, the birth of modern obscenity law, and the development of the conventions of literary realism to the emergence of urban sociology, the rise of new scientific theories of instinct, and the techniques of colonial administration developed during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. By bringing to light disgust's role as a public passion, The Masses Are Revolting reveals significant new connections among these apparently disconnected forms of social control, knowledge production, and infrastructural development.

Writing Realism

Writing Realism
Title Writing Realism PDF eBook
Author Daniel H. Borus
Publisher Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press
Pages 259
Release 1989-01-01
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780807818695

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Borus (history, Colgate U.) traces the social and economic conditions that helped to produce American realism. Analyzing publishing records, personal correspondence, and essays, he shows how dramatic changes in the book market of the late nineteenth century required a redefinition of what a novel was, how it was written, on what basis the author engaged the audience, and what social role the author could play. Excellent notes and bibliography. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Socialist Realism

Socialist Realism
Title Socialist Realism PDF eBook
Author Trisha Low
Publisher Coffee House Press
Pages 153
Release 2019-08-13
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 1566895596

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When Trisha Low moves west, her journey is motivated by the need to arrive “somewhere better”—someplace utopian, like revolution; or safe, like home; or even clarifying, like identity. Instead, she faces the end of her relationships, a family whose values she has difficulty sharing, and America’s casual racism, sexism, and homophobia. In this book-length essay, the problem of how to account for one's life comes to the fore—sliding unpredictably between memory, speculation, self-criticism, and art criticism, Low seeks answers that she knows she won't find. Attempting to reconcile her desires with her radical politics, she asks: do our quests to fulfill our deepest wishes propel us forward, or keep us trapped in the rubble of our deteriorating world?

Realism with a Human Face

Realism with a Human Face
Title Realism with a Human Face PDF eBook
Author Hilary Putnam
Publisher Harvard University Press
Pages 426
Release 1992
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 9780674749450

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One of America's great philosophers says the time has come to reform philosophy. Putnam calls upon philosophers to attend to the gap between the present condition of their subject and the human aspirations that philosophy should and once did claim to represent. His goal is to embed philosophy in social life.

Drawing from Life

Drawing from Life
Title Drawing from Life PDF eBook
Author Christine I. Ho
Publisher University of California Press
Pages 320
Release 2020-02-11
Genre Art
ISBN 0520309626

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Drawing from Life explores revolutionary drawing and sketching in the early People’s Republic of China (1949–1965) in order to discover how artists created a national form of socialist realism. Tracing the development of seminal works by the major painters Xu Beihong, Wang Shikuo, Li Keran, Li Xiongcai, Dong Xiwen, and Fu Baoshi, author Christine I. Ho reconstructs how artists grappled with the representational politics of a nascent socialist art. The divergent approaches, styles, and genres presented in this study reveal an art world that is both heterogeneous and cosmopolitan. Through a history of artistic practices in pursuit of Maoist cultural ambitions—to forge new registers of experience, new structures of feeling, and new aesthetic communities—this original book argues that socialist Chinese art presents a critical, alternative vision for global modernism.