
Realism/Anti-Realism in 20th-Century Literature.
Title:
Realism/Anti-Realism in 20th-Century Literature.
Author:
Baron, Christine.
ISBN:
9789042031166
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (224 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Introduction -- I. Realism and Anti-Realism - Terminological Clarifications -- Réalisme et antiréalisme Une généalogie complexe -- Égalité de la mimesis et de l'antimimesis Quelques notes sur le paradoxe de l'institution de l'oeuvre -- »Laquelle est la vraie?« La parole hybride de la poésie -- II. Modernist Anti-Realism -- Forms and Functions of Anti-Realism in the Literature of High Modernism (Woolf, Proust, Kafka) -- Anti-Realism and the »Livre de peintre« From Symbolism to Surrealism -- Le surréalisme comme réalisme ouvert -- III. Variants of Realism After Modernism -- »À la recherche de la réalité perdue« Ambiguous Alliances between Literature and Photography -- Gilles Deleuze and Italian Neorealism The Irruption of the Virtual -- Social Action as Neo-Realistic Discourse in Níkos Kazantzákis's The Last Temptation of Christ (1960) -- Realism and Fantasy in Novels by Kubin, Raspail, and Cartarescu -- Magic and Realism The Tribal Imagination in Louise Erdrich's Novels -- La littérature romanesque d'Afrique noire francophone entre réalisme, postcolonialisme et postmodernisme -- Realism as Efficacy On the Tectonics of Texts in the Web -- IV. Appendix The Emergence of Realism in Asia - A Case Study -- The Stories of Park Ji-Won Pragmatic Realism Directed against the Confucian Nobility in 18th-Century Korea -- Select Bibliography / Bibliographie sélectionnée -- The Authors / Les Contributeurs.
Abstract:
Modernist literature and art have been dominated by a disinterest in mere empirical and social reality and a discontent with habitualized perception and the world-view of convention, reason, and pragmatism. This anti-realistic attitude originated in the e.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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