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The Oxford handbook of American literary realism
\"The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Realism offers 35 original essays of fresh interpretations of the artistic and political challenges of representing life accurately. Organized by topic and theme, essays draw upon recent scholarship in literary and cultural studies to offer an authoritative and in-depth reassessment of major and minor figures and the contexts that shaped their work. One set of essays explores realism's genesis and its connection to previous and subsequent movements. Others examine the inclusiveness of representation, the circulation of texts, and the aesthetic representation of science, time, space, and the subjects of medicine, the New Woman, and the middle class. Still others trace the connection to other arts--poetry, drama, illustration, photography, painting, and film--and to pedagogic issues in the teaching of realism\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Waiting Water
The Waiting Water addresses
one of the most recurrent and troubling motifs in German Realist
literature-death by drowning. Characters find themselves
before bodies of water, presented with the familiar realm above the
surface and the unobservable, uncanny domain beneath it. With
somber regularity, they then disappear into the depths. Alexander
Sorenson explores the role that these hidden deaths in water play
within a literary movement that set out precisely to reveal
universal truths about human life. The poetics of submergence, he
argues, revolve around two concepts fundamental to Poetic
Realism-order and sacrifice.
Focusing on texts by Adalbert Stifter, Gottfried Keller, Marie
von Ebner-Eschenbach, and Theodor Storm, along with material from
earlier and later epochs, The Waiting Water shows that the
pervasive symbolism of drowning scenes in German Realism, which
typically occur in zones of narrative invisibility on the social
periphery, reveals the extent to which realist narrative uses the
natural environment to work through deeply embedded and hidden
tensions that troubled the social and moral life of the age.
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Landscapes of Realism Volume II Pathways Through Realism: Rethinking Literary Realism in Comparative Perspectives
Few literary phenomena are as elusive and yet as persistent as realism. While it responds to the perennial impulse to use literature to reflect on experience, it also designates a specific set of literary and artistic practices that emerged in response to Western modernity. Landscapes of Realism is a two-volume collaborative interdisciplinary investigation of this vast territory, bringing together leading-edge new criticism on the realist paradigms that were first articulated in nineteenth-century Europe but have since gone on globally to transform the literary landscape. Tracing the manifold ways in which these paradigms are developed, discussed and contested across time, space, cultures and media, this second volume shows in its four core essays and twenty-four case studies four major pathways through the landscapes of realism: The psychological pathways focusing on emotion and memory, the referential pathways highlighting the role of materiality, the formal pathways demonstrating the dynamics of formal experiments, and the geographical pathways exploring the worlding of realism through the encounters between European and non-European languages from the nineteenth century to the present.
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The Afterlife of Sympathy
Literary realism rose to prominence in postbellum America with
what the realists heralded as artful and accurate depictions of the
world. Realism is thought to have replaced sentimentality-an
earlier mode of writing the realists disparaged, which has often
been seen as antithetical to realism. Literary scholar Faye Halpern
challenges this apparent binary by uncovering how and why William
Dean Howells, Mark Twain, Henry James, Constance Fenimore Woolson,
and Charles Chesnutt incorporated sentimental elements into their
most famous works. With its distinctively narratological approach,
The Afterlife of Sympathy offers a more rhetorical way to
understand sentimentality and assess the ethical complexity of
sympathy. Halpern demonstrates how sentimentality enables authors
to form intimate relationships between their characters and readers
to supplement the critical distance that realist writers otherwise
celebrate and that has remained a key value in literary studies
today. In reassessing American literary realism, Halpern seeks not
only to understand why these writers adopted sentimental techniques
but to provide insight into contemporary arguments in literary
studies about critical distance and sympathetic identification.
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