Jameson Fredric
Jameson Fredric - The Antinomies Of Realism - Paperback
Jameson Fredric - The Antinomies Of Realism - Paperback
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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 P rez Gald's 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 what today's book reviewers dub serious novels which are an attempt at the impossible endeavor to roll back the past. 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 realism's 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. In contemporary writing other forms of representation for which the term postmodern is too glib have become visible: for example in the historical fiction of Hilary Mantel or the stylistic plurality of David Mitchell's 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 realistic 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.
Title: The Antinomies Of Realism
Author(s): Jameson Fredric
Publisher: Verso Books
Barcode: 9781781688175
Pages: 432 Pages
Publication Date: 3/10/2015
Category: Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers
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 P rez Gald's 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 what today's book reviewers dub serious novels which are an attempt at the impossible endeavor to roll back the past. 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 realism's 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. In contemporary writing other forms of representation for which the term postmodern is too glib have become visible: for example in the historical fiction of Hilary Mantel or the stylistic plurality of David Mitchell's 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 realistic 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.
Title: The Antinomies Of Realism
Author(s): Jameson Fredric
Publisher: Verso Books
Barcode: 9781781688175
Pages: 432 Pages
Publication Date: 3/10/2015
Category: Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers
