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Book SynopsisModernist literature and art have been dominated by a disinterest in mere empirical and social reality and a discontent with habitualized perception and the world-view of convention, reason, and pragmatism. This anti-realistic attitude originated in the epistemological scepticism of the early 20th century which was even radicalized by the advent of the »linguistic turn«, constructivism, postmodernism, and poststructuralism. Yet it would be a gross simplification to describe the 20th century flatly and globally as an age of anti-realism. Especially in its second half many neo-realist movements were launched, and non-Western literatures (e.g. »magic realism«) challenged Western modernity and its constructivist epistemology. Today, we can not only read many texts which might be attributed to a »postmodernist realism« but may even be watching the rise of a post-postmodernist realism. This vast field of research is discussed in a series of theoretical reflections and case studies of selected texts, movies and the internet which geographically embrace Europe, the USA, Africa and Asia. The volume may be of interest for students and scholars of Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies, and Media Studies as well as for students and experts in the cultures, authors and artists that are covered in the collection of essays.
Table of ContentsChristine Baron / Manfred Engel: Introduction / Introduction Realism and Anti-Realism – Terminological Clarifications Christine Baron: Réalisme et antiréalisme. Une généalogie complexe Jean Bessière: Égalité de la mimesis et de l’antimimesis. Quelques notes sur le paradoxe de l’institution de l’œuvre Sieghild Bogumil-Notz: »Laquelle est la vraie?«. La parole hybride de la poésie Modernist Anti-Realism Manfred Engel: Forms and Functions of Anti-Realism in the Literature of High Modernism (Woolf, Proust, Kafka) Micéala Symington: Anti-Realism and the »Livre de peintre«. From Symbolism to Surrealism Timo Kaitaro: Le surréalisme comme réalisme ouvert Variants of Realism After Modernism Monika Schmitz-Emans: »À la recherche de la réalité perdue«. Ambiguous Alliances between Literature and Photography (P. Härtling, C. Nooteboom, M. Vargas Llosa, M. Beyer) Alberto Hernández-Lemus: Gilles Deleuze and Italian Neorealism. The Irruption of the Virtual Nathan P. Devir: Social Action as Neo-Realistic Discourse in Níkos Kazantzákis’s The Last Temptation of Christ (1960) Virgil Nemoianu: Realism and Fantasy in Novels by Kubin, Raspail, and Cărtărescu Rose Hsiu-li Juan: Magic and Realism. The Tribal Imagination in Louise Erdrich’s Novels Tumba Shango Lokoho: La littérature romanesque d’Afrique noire francophone entre réalisme, postcolonialisme et postmodernisme Holger Schulze: Realism as Efficacy. On the Tectonics of Texts in the Web Appendix: The Emergence of Realism in Asia – A Case Study Mun-Yeong Ahn: The Stories of Park Ji-Won. Pragmatic Realism Directed against the Confucian Nobility in 18th-Century Korea Select Bibliography / Bibliographie sélectionnée The Authors / Les Contributeurs
