208 Pages
by Routledge

198 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

Coming to prominence with the nineteenth-century novel, literary realism has most often been associated with the insistence that art cannot turn away from the more sordid and harsh aspects of human existence. However, because realism is unavoidably tied up with the gnarly concept of 'reality' and 'the real', it has been one of the most widely debated terms in the New Critical Idiom series. This... Read more
SERIES EDITOR’S PREFACE, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, Introduction: What Is Realism?, PART I REALISM VERSUS EXPERIMENTALISM?, PART II LITERARY REALISM: AN INNOVATIVE TRADITION, PART III LITERARY REALISM AS FORMAL ART, PART IV REALISM AND KNOWLEDGE: A UTOPIAN PROJECT?, GLOSSARY, SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING, BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEX

Biography

Pam Morris