{"product_id":"realism-and-its-vicissitudes-9781433130168","title":"Realism and Its Vicissitudes","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection honors the career of Donald Sandy Petrey, Professor of Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Stony Brook for over forty years. The diversity of essays  written by colleagues, friends, and former students, and ranging in subject from the traditional Festschrift theme of the honoree's compelling contributions to the study of realism and the novel's role in history, to chapters on Susan Sontag's experimental films, the thought of the late Marxist philosopher André Gorz, silence in the graphic novel, and linguistic disparities between American and Standard Italian  attests to the plasticity of Sandy Petrey's mind and the ample indications of his work. Best-known (and well-loved) for his often gruff, no-nonsense style in teaching and prose, Petrey is celebrated by those whose careers and ideas he has helped to nurture, inform, and embolden. This collection is a fine text for courses in nineteenth-century as well as contemporary French studies and lite\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents: John Krapp: The Present King of France is Bald – David Anshen: Sandy Petrey’s Unacknowledged Contribution to Historical Materialism – Thoma J. J. Altizer: Revolution and God – Kathryn M. Grossman: Victor Hugo as Realist in Notre-Dame de Paris – Armine Kotin Mortimer: Legality, Narrative Order, and Vagabondage in Balzac’s Ferragus – Dick Howard: André Gorz and the Philosophical Foundation of the Political – E. Ann Kaplan: Sontag Between America and Europe – Herman Lebovics: Ministering to the Culture – Claire Burrows: Desperate Artist – Lori Repetti: A Note on English Loan Words in American Italian and Standard Italian.","brand":"Peter Lang Publishing Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039586615639,"sku":"9781433130168","price":56.97,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781433130168.jpg?v=1750944180","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/realism-and-its-vicissitudes-9781433130168","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}