Table of Contents:
“…Foreword / Rachel Bowlby -- Introduction : reclaiming realism / Matthew Beaumont -- Literary realism reconsidered : "the world in its length and breadth" / George Levine -- Realist synthesis in the nineteenth-century novel : "that unity which lies in the selection of our keenest consciousness" / Simon Dentith -- Space, mobility, and the novel : "the spirit of place is a great reality" / Josephine McDonagh -- Fictions of the real : "all truth with malice in it" / Terry Eagleton -- Naturalism : "dirt and horror pure and simple" / Sally Ledger -- Realism before and after photography : "the fantastical form of a relation among things" / Nancy Armstrong -- The realist aesthetic in painting : "serious and committed, ironic and brutal, sincere and full of poetry" / Andrew Hemingway -- Interrupted dialogues of realism and modernism : "the fact of new forms of life, already born and active" / Esther Leslie -- Socialist realism : "to depict reality in its revolutionary development" / Brandon Taylor -- Realism, modernism, and photography : "at last, at last the mask has been torn away" / John Roberts -- Cinematic realism : "a recreation of the world in its own image" / Laura Marcus -- The current of critical irrealism : "a moonlit enchanted night" / Michael Löwy -- Psychoanalysis and the Lacanian real : "strange shapes of the unwarped primal world" / Slavoj Žižek --
Feminist theory and the return of the real : "what we really want most out of realism-- " / Helen Small -- Realism and anti-realism in contemporary philosophy : "what's truth got to do with it?" …”
Call Number: PR468.R42 B43 2010
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