A concise companion to realism
By: edited by Matthew Beaumont
Series: Blackwell concise companions to literature and culture
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9781405135771; 9781444332070
Other titles: Adventures in realism.
Notes: Updated ed. of: Adventures in realism. 2007.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Rachel Bowlby; title: Introduction : reclaiming realism / Matthew Beaumont; title: Literary realism reconsidered : the world in its length and breadth / George Levine; title: Realist synthesis in the nineteenth-century novel : that unity which lies in the selection of our keenest consciousness / Simon Dentith; title: Space, mobility, and the novel : the spirit of place is a great reality / Josephine McDonagh; title: Fictions of the real : all truth with malice in it / Terry Eagleton; title: Naturalism : dirt and horror pure and simple / Sally Ledger; title: Realism before and after photography : the fantastical form of a relation among things / Nancy Armstrong; title: The realist aesthetic in painting : serious and committed, ironic and brutal, sincere and full of poetry / Andrew Hemingway; title: Interrupted dialogues of realism and modernism : the fact of new forms of life, already born and active / Esther Leslie; title: Socialist realism : to depict reality in its revolutionary development / Brandon Taylor; title: Realism, modernism, and photography : at last, at last the mask has been torn away / John Roberts; title: Cinematic realism : a recreation of the world in its own image / Laura Marcus; title: The current of critical irrealism : a moonlit enchanted night / Michael Löwy; title: Psychoanalysis and the Lacanian real : strange shapes of the unwarped primal world / Slavoj Žižek; title: Feminist theory and the return of the real : what we really want most out of realism / Helen Small; title: Realism and anti-realism in contemporary philosophy : what's truth got to do with it? / Christopher Norris; title: Afterword : a note on literary realism / Fredric Jameson.