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Realisms in contemporary culture : theories, politics, and medial configurations /
'Realism' is a pervasive term in discussions of contemporary developments in literature and film. 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 tu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
De Gruyter,
[2013]
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| Colección: | Linguae & litterae ;
21. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 WatchReality 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.