Beginning Realism

Informationen zum Autor Professor Steven Earnshaw is Head of English at Sheffield Hallam University. Klappentext Realism is an essential concept in literary studies, yet for a variety of reasons it has not received the attention and clarity it deserves, often being dismissed as 'too slippery' to be of use. This accessible study remedies that failing for students and scholars of English Literature and Literary Theory alike, plainly setting out what realism is, the issues surrounding it, and its role in other major literary modes such as modernism and postmodernism. Beginning Realism gives detailed coverage of the nineteenth-century realist novel through its focus on novels by Gaskell, Eliot, Trollope, Dickens, Mrs Oliphant, Thackeray and Zola. As well as discussing 'the novel', the book also includes chapters on the use of realism in drama and poetry and a chapter on 'the language of realism', another aspect often overlooked in analysis of the concept. Zusammenfassung 'Realism' is a term which is key to understanding! amongst other things: the novel genre! Victorian literature! modernism! and postmodernism. This study recognises that realism is every bit as complex as other modes of representation and requires a similar level of critique. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Nineteenth-Century Realist Novel: Two Principles2. The Nineteenth-Century Realist Novel: Particulars3. Problems in Defining the Realist Novel 4. The Idea of Poetry5. Realist Drama6. Modernism7. Before, During, and After PostmodernismInterlude8. Theorists of Realism9. The Language of Realism10. Philosophy, Science, and the Ends of RealismIndex

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Steven Earnshaw, Earnshaw Steven
• Editore: Manchester University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.01.2010
• EAN: 9780719072215
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-7221-5
• Pagine: 304
• Serie: Beginnings; Beginnings; Beginnings (Paperback); Beginnnings
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Literary theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form