Adventures in RealismISBN: 978-1-4051-3577-1
Hardcover
304 pages
September 2007, Wiley-Blackwell
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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 Žižek (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