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100	1		_aJameson, Fredric, _eauthor. _919
245	1	4	_aThe antinomies of realism / _cFredric Jameson.
260			_aLondon, New York: _bVerso, _c2015.
300			_a326 pages : _billustrations ; _c21 cm
500			_aOriginally published: 2013.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"The Antinomies of Realism is a history of the 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, Perez Galdos, 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.--
650		0	_aFiction _y19th century _xHistory and criticism. _918111
650		0	_aRealism in literature. _98808
650		7	_aLITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory. _2bisacsh _914804
650		7	_aPHILOSOPHY / General. _2bisacsh _918112
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