Boundaries of Realism in World Literature

This book is a valuable theoretical and critical contribution to the study of realism inworld literature. Proceeding from the mimetic theories of the era of antiquity, and proceeding to explore formalists, structuralists, theories of possible worlds, and theories of simulation, Kvas points to the fictionality of (mimetic) realism, to literature and art as the creation of new, fictional aesthetic worlds, even when-as in the case of realism-there is a programmatic and practical inclination of such art and literature toward the world of the historical and the social-the real in the original sense of the word. This study will enable readers to confront, in a new and dependable manner, the issues of literary realism and its digressions into magical realism.

List of contents

Chapter 1: The Fictionality of Realism
Chapter 2: Realism, Intertextuality and Market Relations: Thackeray
Chapter 3: Realism and the Social Function of Art: Russian Theorists of Realism and Svetozar Markovi¿
Chapter 4: The Realism of History and the Realism of Fiction: Tolstoy
Chapter 5: Power and Realism: Tolstoy
Chapter 6: Realism and Confidence in the Author: Dostoevsky
Chapter 7: Rationalism and Realism: Dostoevsky
Chapter 8: Style, Form and Realism: Maupassant
Chapter 9: Interculturalism and Realism: Matavulj
Chapter 10: Realism, Modernism and Magic Realism: Andri¿
Afterword, Aleksandar Ili¿

About the author

Kornelije Kvas is professor at the University of Belgrade.

Summary

This study provides a broad examination of the use of realism in literature. In particular, the author analyzes the such writers as Thackeray, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Maupassant.

Product details

• Authors: Kornelije Kvas
• Assisted by: Novica Petrovic (Translation), Petrovic Novica (Translation)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781793609106
• ISBN: 978-1-79360-910-6
• No. of pages: 206
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Russia, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Realism, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Soviet