The Persistence of Realism in Modernist Fiction
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 25 April 2024
- ISBN 9781009223164
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages242 pages
- Size 228x150x15 mm
- Weight 380 g
- Language English 707
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Short description:
Demonstrates the persistence of realism's characteristic concerns - sympathy, melodrama, gender and class - in the most aesthetically innovative works of modernist fiction.
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Form vs. content, aesthetics vs. politics, modernism vs. realism: these entrenched binaries tend to structure work in early 20th century literary studies even among scholars who seek to undo them. The Persistence of Realism demonstrates how realism's defining concerns - sympathy, class, social determination - animate the work of Henry James, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett and Ralph Ellison. In contrast to the oft-told tale of an aesthetically rich modernism overthrowing realism's social commitments along with its formal structures, Stasi shows how these writers engaged with realism in concrete ways. The domestic novel, naturalist fiction, novels of sentiment, and industrial tales are realist structures that modernist fiction simultaneously preserves and subverts. Putting modernist writers in conversation with the realism that preceded them, The Persistence of Realism demonstrates how modernism's social concerns are inseparable from its formal ones.
'Paul Stasi's book refuses a simple story of realism vs modernism in which one is a passive reflection and the other a stylized rejection of how things are. Instead he yokes them together as valuable resources for imagining how things might be.' Times Literary Supplement
Table of Contents:
1. Fables of autonomy in Late James; 2. 'She will drown me with her': sympathy and autonomy in Joyce's Ulysses; 3. 'Innumberable slight changes': historical time and social reproduction in The Years; 4. 'I was always sentimental': Beckett's scenes of sympathy; 5. 'He forgot his history': Ellison's Naturalist Modernism.
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