A Concise Companion to Realism

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Matthew Beaumont
John Wiley & Sons, 26 Nis 2010 - 320 sayfa
A Concise Companion to Realism offers an accessible introduction to realism as it has evolved since the 19th century. Though focused on literature and literary theory, the significance of technology and the visual arts is also addressed.
  • Comprises 17 newly-commissioned essays written by a distinguished group of contributors, including Slavoj Zizek, Frederic Jameson and Terry Eagleton
  • Provides the historical, cultural, intellectual, and literary contexts necessary to understand developments in realism
  • Addresses the artistic mediums and technologies such as painting and film that have helped shape the way we perceive reality
  • Explores literary and pictorial sub-genres, such as naturalism and socialist realism
  • Includes a brief bibliography and suggestions for further reading at the end of each section
 

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İçindekiler

Reclaiming Realism
1
The spirit of place
50
All truth with malice in it
68
Dirt and horror pure and simple
86
The fantastical
102
Serious
121
1
127
To depict reality in its revolutionary
160
A recreation of the world
195
Two Ways of Life 1857 Oscar Gustave Rejlander Burial at Ornans 184950 Gustave Courbet The Iron Rolling Mill 18725 Adolph Menzel 7 3 Metrop...
201
A moonlit
211
Strange shapes
225
What
242
A note on literary realism
279
1
294
Telif Hakkı

At last at last
176

Sık kullanılan terimler ve kelime öbekleri

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Yazar hakkında (2010)

Matthew Beaumont is Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature in the Department of English at University College, London. He is the author of Utopia Ltd.: Ideologies of Social Dreaming in England 1870-1900 (2005), and has edited Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward for Oxford World’s Classics.

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BaşlıkA Concise Companion to Realism
Concise Companions to Literature and Culture
EditörMatthew Beaumont
Baskıresimli, düzeltilmiş
YayıncıJohn Wiley & Sons, 2010
ISBN1444332074, 9781444332070
Uzunluk320 sayfa
  
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