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Theories of literary realism /
Realism has not only shaped important schools and periods in literary history, but has also been a fundamental constant of all literature, its first theoretical formulation being the principle of mimesis in Aristotle's Poetics. Realism can be considered by extension one of the main aspects of l...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Español |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©1997.
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| Edición: | Rev., with a new pref. / |
| Colección: | SUNY series, the margins of literature.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Realism has not only shaped important schools and periods in literary history, but has also been a fundamental constant of all literature, its first theoretical formulation being the principle of mimesis in Aristotle's Poetics. Realism can be considered by extension one of the main aspects of literary theory, the aims of which must be to define its concepts clearly and to neutralize the imprecision, polysemy, and ambiguity that often characterized the application of realism. This book explores the possibilities and limits of a concept of realism that seeks a point of equilibrium between the principle of the autonomy of the literary work vis-a-vis reality and the complex relations that the work clearly establishes with this reality. It acknowledges that it is a personal response to the poststructuralist crisis in literary theory. By concentrating on the study of the literary work of art as a verbal construction, the great Continental and Anglo-American tradition of formalism and New Criticism has ended up neglecting the second, mimetic aspect of the literary problematic, thus dissociating literature from life. |
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| Notas: | Given as a cycle of five lectures at the Instituto de España, in Madrid, Apr. 1991. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 190 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-182) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0585091269 9780585091266 9780791433270 0791433277 9780791433287 0791433285 1438422946 9781438422947 |
| Acceso: | Single user license access. |