Form vs. content, aesthetics vs. politics, modernism vs. realism: these entrenched binaries tend to structure work in early 20th century literary studies even among scholars who seek to undo them. The Persistence of Realism demonstrates how realism's defining concerns - sympathy, class, social...

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1. Verfasser:	Stasi, Paul 1972- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2022
Schlagworte:	English fiction / 20th century / History and criticism American fiction / 20th century / History and criticism Realism in literature Modernism (Literature) / Great Britain Modernism (Literature) / United States Realismus Roman Moderne Englisch
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Zusammenfassung:	Form vs. content, aesthetics vs. politics, modernism vs. realism: these entrenched binaries tend to structure work in early 20th century literary studies even among scholars who seek to undo them. The Persistence of Realism demonstrates how realism's defining concerns - sympathy, class, social determination - animate the work of Henry James, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett and Ralph Ellison. In contrast to the oft-told tale of an aesthetically rich modernism overthrowing realism's social commitments along with its formal structures, Stasi shows how these writers engaged with realism in concrete ways. The domestic novel, naturalist fiction, novels of sentiment, and industrial tales are realist structures that modernist fiction simultaneously preserves and subverts. Putting modernist writers in conversation with the realism that preceded them, The Persistence of Realism demonstrates how modernism's social concerns are inseparable from its formal ones
Beschreibung:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Nov 2022) Introduction : the remainders of realism -- Fables of autonomy in late James -- "She will drown me with her" : sympathy and autonomy in Joyce's Ulysses -- "Innumerable slight changes" : historical time and social reproduction in The years -- "I was always sentimental" : Beckett's scenes of sympathy -- "He forgot his history" : Ellison's naturalist modernism -- Conclusion : form and mediation, or the desire to explain literary objects
Beschreibung:	1 Online-Ressource (vii, 234 Seiten)
ISBN:	9781009223126
DOI:	10.1017/9781009223126