Realism: Aesthetics, Experiments, Politics

ISBN-13: 9781501385483 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 296 str.

Jens Elze

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List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: Realism, Political Aesthetics, and (New) Materialism (Jens Elze, Georg August University of Göttingen, Germany) Part I. Aesthetics 1. “Uses of ‘Realism’”: A Term in History and the History of a Term (Andreas Mahler, Free University of Berlin, Germany) 2. George Eliot’s Realisms (Nadine Böhm-Schnitker, Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany) 3. Medical Realism and the Magic of Reality: Art and Insight in Thomas Hardy’s The Woodlanders and Émile Zola’s Le docteur Pascal (Maren Scheurer, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany) 4. Conrad on Epidemics: From The Shadow-Line to Covid-19 (and Back) (Nidesh Lawtoo, KU Leuven, Belgium) Part II. Experiments 5. “Should I Call It Horror?”: Reflecting Realism by Exploring Contingency in Ror Wolf’s Adventure Series Pilzer und Pelzer (Barbara Bausch, Free University of Berlin, Germany) 6. Trawling Truth: B.S. Johnson’s Evacuation of Realist Epistemology (André Otto, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany) 7. Cultural Realism: Reconsidering Magical Realism in Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine (Nasrin Babakhani, Georg August University of Göttingen, Germany) 8. Narrative as Realistic Thinking (Kai Wiegandt, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany) Part III. Politics 9. Realism for Sustainability (Caroline Levine, Cornell University, USA) 10. Network Realism/Capitalist Realism (Dirk Wiemann, University of Potsdam, Germany) 11. Postcolonial Realism and Rohinton Mistry’s Family Matters (Eli Park Sorensen, Chinese University of Hong Kong) 12. Settler-Colonial Realism: Naturalizing and Denaturalizing the Frontier (Hamish Dalley, Daemen College, USA) Notes on Contributors Index