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Realism/Anti-Realism in 20th-Century Literature
Edited by Christine Baron and Manfred Engel
Amsterdam/New York, NY 2010. 235 pp. (Internationale Forschungen
zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft 142)
ISBN: 978-90-420-3115-9Paper
ISBN: 978-90-420-3116-6E-Book
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.
Table of Contents
Christine Baron / Manfred Engel: Introduction / Introduction
I. Realism and Anti-Realism - Terminological Clarifications:
Christine Baron: Réalisme et antiréalisme. Une généalogie complexe;
Jean Bessière: Égalité de la mimesis et de l'antimimesis. Quelques notes
sur le paradoxe de l'institution de l'oeuvre;
Sieghild Bogumil-Notz: »Laquelle est la vraie?«. La parole hybride de la
poésie
II. Modernist Anti-Realism:
Manfred Engel: Forms and Functions of Anti-Realism in the Literature
of High Modernism (Woolf, Proust, Kafka);
Micéala Symington: Anti-Realism and the »Livre de peintre«. From
Symbolism to Surrealism;
Timo Kaitaro: Le surréalisme comme réalisme ouvert
III. Variants of Realism After Modernism:
Monika Schmitz-Emans: »À la recherche de la réalité perdue«.
Ambiguous Alliances between Literature and Photography (P. Härtling,
C. Nooteboom, M. Vargas Llosa, M. Beyer);
Alberto Hernández-Lemus: Gilles Deleuze and Italian Neorealism. The
Irruption of the Virtual;
Nathan P. Devir: Social Action as Neo-Realistic Discourse in Níkos
Kazantzákis's The Last Temptation of Christ (1960);
Virgil Nemoianu: Realism and Fantasy in Novels by Kubin, Raspail, and
Cartarescu;
Rose Hsiu-li Juan: Magic and Realism. The Tribal Imagination in
Louise Erdrich's Novels;
Tumba Shango Lokoho: La littérature romanesque d'Afrique noire
francophone entre réalisme, postcolonialisme et postmodernisme;
Holger Schulze: Realism as Efficacy. On the Tectonics of Texts in the
Web
IV. Appendix: The Emergence of Realism in Asia - A Case Study:
Mun-Yeong Ahn: The Stories of Park Ji-Won. Pragmatic Realism
Directed against the Confucian Nobility in 18th-Century Korea
Select Bibliography / Bibliographie sélectionnée
The Authors / Les Contributeurs
Best wishes
Manfred Engel
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Prof. Dr. Manfred Engel
Universität des Saarlandes
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