Realism: Aesthetics, Experiments, Politics
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-8548-3 (ISBN)
The innovative chapters of this book address some of the pressing questions of literary and cultural studies today, like the complex relation between historical materialism and new materialisms, between science and art, or the different aesthetic and political affordances of making systemic analyses against depicting the specificity of the local. Some of the chapters deal with classically realist authors, such as George Eliot, Émile Zola, and Joseph Conrad, to gauge the aesthetic radicalism of their diverse realist projects. Others investigate the experimental engagements with realism by authors such as B.S. Johnson, J.M. Coetzee, or Rachel Cusk. Yet others, analyze the politics of realism found in contemporary anglophone novels by writers like Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, David Mitchell, or Rohinton Mistry. The readings assembled here are a testament to the diversity of literary realism(s) from the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, and to the ongoing controversies surrounding definitions and deployments of “realism.”
Jens Elze is Assistant Professor of English at University of Goettingen, Germany. He is author of Postcolonial Modernism and the Picaresque Novel: Literatures of Precarity (2017) and editor of Das Enigma des Pikaresken / The Enigma of the Picaresque (2018).
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Realism, Political Aesthetics, and (New) Materialism (Jens Elze, Georg August University of Göttingen, Germany)
Part I. Aesthetics
1. “Uses of ‘Realism’”: A Term in History and the History of a Term (Andreas Mahler, Free University of Berlin, Germany)
2. George Eliot’s Realisms (Nadine Böhm-Schnitker, Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)
3. Medical Realism and the Magic of Reality: Art and Insight in Thomas Hardy’s The Woodlanders and Émile Zola’s Le docteur Pascal (Maren Scheurer, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany)
4. Conrad on Epidemics: From The Shadow-Line to Covid-19 (and Back) (Nidesh Lawtoo, KU Leuven, Belgium)
Part II. Experiments
5. “Should I Call It Horror?”: Reflecting Realism by Exploring Contingency in Ror Wolf’s Adventure Series Pilzer und Pelzer (Barbara Bausch, Free University of Berlin, Germany)
6. Trawling Truth: B.S. Johnson’s Evacuation of Realist Epistemology (André Otto, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany)
7. Cultural Realism: Reconsidering Magical Realism in Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine (Nasrin Babakhani, Georg August University of Göttingen, Germany)
8. Narrative as Realistic Thinking (Kai Wiegandt, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany)
Part III. Politics
9. Realism for Sustainability (Caroline Levine, Cornell University, USA)
10. Network Realism/Capitalist Realism (Dirk Wiemann, University of Potsdam, Germany)
11. Postcolonial Realism and Rohinton Mistry’s Family Matters (Eli Park Sorensen, Chinese University of Hong Kong)
12. Settler-Colonial Realism: Naturalizing and Denaturalizing the Frontier (Hamish Dalley, Daemen College, USA)
Notes on Contributors
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 19.04.2022 |
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Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-5013-8548-8 / 1501385488 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-5013-8548-3 / 9781501385483 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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