"Richard Ford and the Ends of Realism "examines the work of award-winning American novelist and short story writer Richard Ford, and places it firmly in the context of contemporary debates about the role and meaning of literary realism in a postmodern environment. In this fresh study of Ford s oeuvre, Ian McGuire argues that Ford s work is best understood as a form of pragmatic realism and thus positions him as part of a deeply rooted and ongoing American debate about the nature of realism and pragmatism. This debate, which reaches back to transcendentalist thinkers such as Ralph Waldo...
"Richard Ford and the Ends of Realism "examines the work of award-winning American novelist and short story writer Richard Ford, and places it firmly ...