Realism (Modern Literatures in Perspective)

Furst, Lilian R. (EDT)

Longman Pub Group（1992/08発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 352 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780582085312
• DDC分類 809.912

Full Description

All students of literature come into contact with the central concept of Realism at some time. Professor Furst's collection of seminal work on the subject provides the essential introduction to and exploration of its meaning. The study explores the range of critical responses from the reflections of Balzac and Henry James to, amongst other humanist, marxist, psychoanalytic, feminist and postmodern perspectives.

Contents

Part 1 Contemporary views and reviewsto society; Balzac addresses the reader about truth; Duranty on the principles of realism; George Lewes on realism in art; George Eliot on truthfulness; Flaubert on writing "Madam Bovary"; Henry James on the art of fiction; Maupassant on realism as "illusionism". Part 2 Humanist readings: Erich Auerbach on Stendhal, Balzac and Flaubert; Ian Watt on realism and the novel form. Part 3 Modern readings: Marxist - George Lukacs on Balzac's "Lost Illusions"; Pierre Macherey on Balzac's "Les Paysans"; Structuralist - Roland Barthes on the reality effect in descriptions; David Lodge on Hemingway's "Cat in the Rain"; Rhetorical - Philippe Hamon on the major features of realist discourse; David Lodge on Dickens' "Hard Times"; Reader-oriented - Wolfgang Iser on the play of the text; Kendall L. Walton on pretending belief; Psychoanalytic - Peter Brooks on the plot dynamics of "Great Expectations"; Leo Bersani on realism and the fear of desire, Postmodern - J. Hillis Miller on the fiction of realism, Penny Boumelha on realism and feminism.