UID:
almahu_9949700803702882
Format:
1 online resource (235 pages) :
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illustrations.
ISBN:
9789042031166
Series Statement:
Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 142
Content:
Modernist literature and art have been dominated by a disinterest in mere empirical and social reality and a discontent with habitualized perception and the world-view of convention, reason, and pragmatism. This anti-realistic attitude originated in the epistemological scepticism of the early 20th century which was even radicalized by the advent of the »linguistic turn«, constructivism, postmodernism, and poststructuralism. Yet it would be a gross simplification to describe the 20th century flatly and globally as an age of anti-realism. Especially in its second half many neo-realist movements were launched, and non-Western literatures (e.g. »magic realism«) challenged Western modernity and its constructivist epistemology. Today, we can not only read many texts which might be attributed to a »postmodernist realism« but may even be watching the rise of a post-postmodernist realism. This vast field of research is discussed in a series of theoretical reflections and case studies of selected texts, movies and the internet which geographically embrace Europe, the USA, Africa and Asia. The volume may be of interest for students and scholars of Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies, and Media Studies as well as for students and experts in the cultures, authors and artists that are covered in the collection of essays.
Note:
Preliminary Material --
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Introduction /
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Introduction /
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Réalisme et antiréalisme Une généalogie complexe /
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Égalité de la mimesis et de l'antimimesis Quelques notes sur le paradoxe de l'institution de l'œuvre /
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»Laquelle est la vraie?« La parole hybride de la poésie /
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Forms and Functions of Anti-Realism in the Literature of High Modernism (Woolf, Proust, Kafka) /
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Anti-Realism and the »Livre de peintre« From Symbolism to Surrealism /
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Le surréalisme comme réalisme ouvert /
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»À la recherche de la réalité perdue« Ambiguous Alliances between Literature and Photography (P. Härtling, C. Nooteboom, M. Vargas Llosa, M. Beyer) /
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Gilles Deleuze and Italian Neorealism The Irruption of the Virtual /
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Social Action as Neo-Realistic Discourse in Níkos Kazantzákis's The Last Temptation of Christ (1960) /
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Realism and Fantasy in Novels by Kubin, Raspail, and Cărtărescu /
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Magic and Realism The Tribal Imagination in Louise Erdrich's Novels /
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La littérature romanesque d'Afrique noire francophone entre réalisme, postcolonialisme et postmodernisme /
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Realism as Efficacy On the Tectonics of Texts in the Web /
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The Stories of Park Ji-Won Pragmatic Realism Directed against the Confucian Nobility in 18th-Century Korea /
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Select Bibliography / Bibliographie sélectionnée --
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The Authors / Les Contributeurs.
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Articles in English and French.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Realism/anti-realism in 20th-century literature. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2010 ISBN 9789042031159
Language:
English
