Alternative Paradigms of Literary Realism [electronic resource] /
Adams, D.author.
Using the traditional genres of allegory, pastoral, and parable, this book develops alternative paradigms of literary realism with which to reexamine a group of crucial but marginalized 20th century writers who have been misread as conventional mimetic realists.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-196) and index.
Truth as a matter of style: alternative paradigms of literary realism -- One is never quite totally in the world: Jane Bowles' allegorical realism -- Whatever is, is wrong: James Purdy's allegorical realism -- Some imaginary Vienna: Ronald Firbank's pastoral realism -- To create a life which is not: Henry Green's pastoral-organic realism -- There's a providence not so far away from us: Penelope Fitzgerald's parablistic realism.
Using the traditional genres of allegory, pastoral, and parable, this book develops alternative paradigms of literary realism with which to reexamine a group of crucial but marginalized 20th century writers who have been misread as conventional mimetic realists.
Bowles, Jane, 1917-1973
Purdy, James, 1914-2009
Green, Henry, 1905-1973
Firbank, Ronald, 1886-1926
Fitzgerald, Penelope
America-Literatures.
Literature, Modern-20th century.
Literature-History and criticism.
Fiction.
Literature-Philosophy.
Linguistics.
North American Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Literary History.
Fiction.
Literary Theory.
Linguistics, general.