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Realisms in Contemporary Culture : Theories, Politics, and Medial Configurations / ed. by Dorothee Birke, Stella Butter.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: linguae & litterae : Publications of the School of Language and Literature Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies ; 21Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (234 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110307511
  • 9783110312911
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809.912 809/.912
LOC classification:
  • PN56.R3 R3717 2013
  • PN56.R3 R3717 2013
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Making the Case for Metonymic Realism -- Truth Claims in the Contemporary Novel: The Authenticity Effect, Allegory, and Totality -- Realism, Women Writers and the Contemporary British Novel -- Ousmane Sembène’s Hybrid ‘Truth’ – Social(ist) Realism and Postcolonial Writing Back -- More is Less: Representing the Planet -- Ecocritical Realism: Nature, Culture, and Reality in Icelandic Environmental Literature -- Exhibiting Lost Love: The Relational Realism of Things in Orhan Pamuk’s The Museum of Innocence and Leanne Shapton’s Important Artifacts -- Realisms in British Drama since the 1990s: Anthony Neilson’s Realism and Gregory Burke’s Black Watch -- Reality and Realism in Contemporary German Theatre Performances -- The Parodic Play with Realist Aesthetics and Authenticity Claims in Cheryl Dunye’s Black Queer Mockumentary The Watermelon Woman -- Visual Event Realism -- Appendix -- Notes on Contributors
Summary: ‘Realism’ is a pervasive term in discussions of contemporary developments in the cultural sphere. By drawing on different theories of realism, the authors explore how the term may be used as a helpful concept in order to analyse and evaluate current trends in cultural production and, in turn, how cultural production changes our understanding of what counts as ‘realism’. The contributions deal with realism in narrative fiction, drama and audiovisual media (film, television news) within the context of national traditions: examples drawn on in the case studies range from Africa, Britain, Germany, Iceland, Russia, Turkey to the United States. While the authors take their cues from media-specific ‘realisms’, focusing especially on narrative fiction, the volume also highlights continuities and intersections between notions of realism in different genres and media. With its original essays, this collection invigorates the transdisciplinary engagement with forms and socio-political functions of realism in contemporary culture.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Making the Case for Metonymic Realism -- Truth Claims in the Contemporary Novel: The Authenticity Effect, Allegory, and Totality -- Realism, Women Writers and the Contemporary British Novel -- Ousmane Sembène’s Hybrid ‘Truth’ – Social(ist) Realism and Postcolonial Writing Back -- More is Less: Representing the Planet -- Ecocritical Realism: Nature, Culture, and Reality in Icelandic Environmental Literature -- Exhibiting Lost Love: The Relational Realism of Things in Orhan Pamuk’s The Museum of Innocence and Leanne Shapton’s Important Artifacts -- Realisms in British Drama since the 1990s: Anthony Neilson’s Realism and Gregory Burke’s Black Watch -- Reality and Realism in Contemporary German Theatre Performances -- The Parodic Play with Realist Aesthetics and Authenticity Claims in Cheryl Dunye’s Black Queer Mockumentary The Watermelon Woman -- Visual Event Realism -- Appendix -- Notes on Contributors

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‘Realism’ is a pervasive term in discussions of contemporary developments in the cultural sphere. By drawing on different theories of realism, the authors explore how the term may be used as a helpful concept in order to analyse and evaluate current trends in cultural production and, in turn, how cultural production changes our understanding of what counts as ‘realism’. The contributions deal with realism in narrative fiction, drama and audiovisual media (film, television news) within the context of national traditions: examples drawn on in the case studies range from Africa, Britain, Germany, Iceland, Russia, Turkey to the United States. While the authors take their cues from media-specific ‘realisms’, focusing especially on narrative fiction, the volume also highlights continuities and intersections between notions of realism in different genres and media. With its original essays, this collection invigorates the transdisciplinary engagement with forms and socio-political functions of realism in contemporary culture.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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