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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Verso Books
Publication date
October 8, 2013
Pages
326
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781781681336
ISBN-10
1781681333
Dimensions
1 by 6.25 by 9.50 in.
Weight
1.50 lbs.
Original list price
$34.95
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: The Antinomies of Realism is a history ofthe nineteenth-century realist novel and its legacy told without a glimmer of nostalgia for artistic achievements that the movement of history makes it impossible to recreate. The works of Zola, Tolstoy, Pérez Galdós, and George Eliot are in the most profound sense inimitable, yet continue to dominate the novel form to this day. Novels to emerge since struggle to reconcile the social conditions of their own creation with the history of this mode of writing: the so-called modernist novel is one attempted solution to this conflict, as is the ever-more impoverished variety of commercial narratives â what todayâs book reviewers dub âserious novels,â which are an attempt at the impossible endeavor to roll back the past.Â
Fredric Jameson examines the most influential theories of artistic and literary realism, approaching the subject himself in terms of the social and historical preconditions for realismâs emergence. The realist novel combined an attention to the body and its states of feeling with a focus on the quest for individual realization within the confines of history.Â
In contemporary writing, other forms of representation â for which the term âpostmodernâ is too glib â have become visible: for example, in the historical fiction of Hilary Mantel or the stylistic plurality of David Mitchellâs novels. Contemporary fiction is shown to be conducting startling experiments in the representation of new realities of a global social totality, modern technological warfare, and historical developments that, although they saturate every corner of our lives, only become apparent on rare occasions and by way of the strangest formal and artistic devices.
In a coda, Jameson explains how ârealisticâ narratives survived the end of classical realism. In effect, he provides an argument for the serious study of popular fiction and mass culture that transcends lazy journalism and the easy platitudes of recent cultural studies.
Fredric Jameson examines the most influential theories of artistic and literary realism, approaching the subject himself in terms of the social and historical preconditions for realismâs emergence. The realist novel combined an attention to the body and its states of feeling with a focus on the quest for individual realization within the confines of history.Â
In contemporary writing, other forms of representation â for which the term âpostmodernâ is too glib â have become visible: for example, in the historical fiction of Hilary Mantel or the stylistic plurality of David Mitchellâs novels. Contemporary fiction is shown to be conducting startling experiments in the representation of new realities of a global social totality, modern technological warfare, and historical developments that, although they saturate every corner of our lives, only become apparent on rare occasions and by way of the strangest formal and artistic devices.
In a coda, Jameson explains how ârealisticâ narratives survived the end of classical realism. In effect, he provides an argument for the serious study of popular fiction and mass culture that transcends lazy journalism and the easy platitudes of recent cultural studies.
Editions
Hardcover
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from Verso Books (October 8, 2013)
9781781681336 | details & prices | 326 pages | 6.25 × 9.50 × 1.00 in. | 1.50 lbs | List price $34.95
About: The Antinomies of Realism is a history ofthe nineteenth-century realist novel and its legacy told without a glimmer of nostalgia for artistic achievements that the movement of history makes it impossible to recreate.
About: The Antinomies of Realism is a history ofthe nineteenth-century realist novel and its legacy told without a glimmer of nostalgia for artistic achievements that the movement of history makes it impossible to recreate.
Paperback
Reprint edition from Verso Books (March 10, 2015)
9781781688175 | details & prices | 326 pages | 5.00 × 7.00 × 1.00 in. | 1.00 lbs | List price $19.95
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