Adventures in RealismISBN: 978-1-4051-3577-1
Hardcover
304 pages
September 2007, Wiley-Blackwell
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Kate Flint, Rutgers University
"Every new generation of critics and scholars must come to terms
in its own ways with the paradoxes of realism. Realism is a period
style, but at the same time it is a perennial motive in literature,
art, film, and other media. Realism purports to represent things as
they are, or were, but at the same time it is a constitutive set of
conventions that tells people in a given time and place what is to
be taken as real. This distinguished collection of essays
brilliantly articulates these paradoxes for our own time."
J.Hillis Miller, University of California at Irvine
"What a wonderfully wide and deep and pushing inspection of
realisms (and irrealisms) in history, in theory, in practice.
Here’s realism, then and now, cannily philosophized,
politicized, feminized, psychologized. Here are so many of
realism’s practitioners, its aesthetic friends and enemies,
the missionaries and also the scoffers, being heard and watched as
they engage with their chosen media – novels, plays,
paintings, photographs, films, buildings. It is, I think, as
serious, engaging, educating a look at the large realist project as
could well be assembled."
Valentine Cunningham, Corpus Christi College, Oxford
“Beaumont's introduction, 'Reclaiming Realism,' pinpoints
the purpose of this collection. Realism fell victim to postmodern
discourse; Beaumont and his fellow contributors wish to restore
it.”
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