The Real Thing: Reflections on a Literary Form - Couverture rigide

Eagleton, Terry

 
9780300274295: The Real Thing: Reflections on a Literary Form
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0300274297 ISBN 13 : 9780300274295
Editeur : Yale University Press, 2024

Synopsis

A clear-sighted and entertaining defence of literary realism, and an account of its key practitioners

Realist fiction is one of the most enduring artforms history has ever witnessed. By describing the intricate inner life of its characters, or widening its focus to set their experience in context, it can evoke the reader's sympathies as few other forms can. Yet it is also by and large a product of the middle classes: boldly individualist and fascinated by money, property, marriage, and inheritance.

Can such realism survive in the postmodern age?

Acclaimed critic Terry Eagleton explores realism's complex history, practice, and politics. Spanning several centuries, and including writers such as George Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, and Iris Murdoch, Eagleton offers a witty, entertaining defence of a form which offers both panoramic scope and individual nuance in an increasingly fragmented world.

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À propos de l?auteur

Terry Eagleton is distinguished visiting professor of English literature at Lancaster University and the author of more than fifty books in the fields of literary theory, postmodernism, politics, ideology, and religion.

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Éditeur
Yale University Press
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0300274297
ISBN 13 
9780300274295
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
176
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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