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Landscapes of Realism
Rethinking literary realism in comparative perspectives
Volume II: Pathways through realism
Few literary phenomena are as elusive and yet as persistent as realism. While it responds to the perennial impulse to use literature to reflect on experience, it also designates a specific set of literary and artistic practices that emerged in response to Western modernity. Landscapes of Realism is a two-volume collaborative interdisciplinary investigation of this vast territory, bringing together leading-edge new criticism on the realist paradigms that were first articulated in nineteenth-century Europe but have since gone on globally to transform the literary landscape. Tracing the manifold ways in which these paradigms are developed, discussed and contested across time, space, cultures and media, this second volume shows in its four core essays and twenty-four case studies four major pathways through the landscapes of realism: The psychological pathways focusing on emotion and memory, the referential pathways highlighting the role of materiality, the formal pathways demonstrating the dynamics of formal experiments, and the geographical pathways exploring the worlding of realism through the encounters between European and non-European languages from the nineteenth century to the present.
The two volumes of Landscapes of Realism have won the 2024 Excellence Award for Collaborative Research, awarded by the European Society of Comparative Literature.
This volume is part of a book set which can be ordered at a special discount: https://www.benjamins.com/series/chlel/chlel_special_offer_realism.pdf
[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XXXIII] 2022. xv, 780 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 23 February 2022
Published online on 23 February 2022
© John Benjamins B.V. / Association Internationale de Littérature Comparée
Table of Contents
- List of illustrations | pp. xi–12
- Editors’ preface and acknowledgments
- Note on translations, cross-references and documentation
- IntroductionSvend Erik Larsen, Steen Bille Jørgensen and Margaret R. Higonnet | pp. 1–26
- Chapter 1. Psychological pathways: Emotion and memorySvend Erik Larsen | p. 27
- Core essay
- “Memories inwrought with affection”: Emotion and memory in realismSvend Erik Larsen and Patrizia Lombardo† | pp. 29–133
- Case studies
- The interplay between emotion and memory: Stendhal, Zola, MusilPatrizia Lombardo | pp. 135–150
- Situations of sympathy: Eroding emotions and everyday life in the realist novelTone Selboe | pp. 151–168
- The poetics of disgust in realist fiction: Émile Zola and Sofi OksanenRiikka Rossi | pp. 169–183
- Attunement: Mood and memory in Goethe, Flaubert and DickensStefan Hajduk | pp. 185–200
- Spanish and Latin American memory novelsHans Lauge Hansen | pp. 201–216
- History and untold memories: New historical realism in Assia Djebar’s cinemaMaya Boutaghou | pp. 217–229
- Chapter 2. Referential pathways: Objects and bodiesSimon J. James and Svend Erik Larsen | p. 231
- Core essay
- Material matters: The surfaces of realist fictionSimon J. James | pp. 233–270
- Case studies
- Curating realism in a world of objects: Collecting in Charles Dickens and Arthur Conan DoyleAnthony Walker-Cook | pp. 271–286
- Caricature and realismSvend Erik Larsen | pp. 287–302
- Realism and allegory: Balzac, Dickens and JamesJeremy Tambling | pp. 303–316
- “Distance avails not”: Representing the modern massesSvend Erik Larsen | pp. 317–336
- Toward affective realism: Performing the reverse side of the faceTomáš Jirsa | pp. 337–350
- Posthumanism and realismMads Rosendahl Thomsen | pp. 351–366
- Chapter 3. Formal pathways: Genre and formSteen Bille Jørgensen and Margaret R. Higonnet | p. 365
- Core essay
- Dynamics of realist formsSteen Bille Jørgensen and Margaret R. Higonnet | pp. 367–472
- Case studies
- Forms of realism in children’s literatureMargaret R. Higonnet | pp. 473–488
- Early theatrical realism on page and stage: Zola, Ibsen, StrindbergJoan Templeton | pp. 489–502
- Poetry, Pessoa and realismJeremy Tambling | pp. 503–518
- The making of the historical narrative in the Swahili utenzi : The realism of a poetic formAlena Rettová | pp. 519–534
- Photography and dissent in John Lewis’s graphic novel MarchKatharine Capshaw | pp. 535–548
- The visions of John Ball: Iain Bell’s opera In ParenthesisJennie-Rebecca Falcetta | pp. 549–562
- Chapter 4. Geographical pathways: Worlding realismSvend Erik Larsen and Margaret R. Higonnet | p. 563
- Core essay
- Dialogic encountersSvend Erik Larsen and Margaret R. Higonnet | pp. 565–666
- Case studies
- Varieties of theatrical realism after IbsenJoan Templeton | pp. 667–684
- Is there a notion of ‘realism’ in traditional China?Nicolas Zufferey | pp. 685–702
- Worlding of realism: The case of Naguib MahfouzWen-chin Ouyang | pp. 703–720
- The real magic in Miguel Ángel Asturias’s magical realism: Legends of Guatemala and The PresidentKaren-Margrethe Simonsen | pp. 721–736
- Narrate or describe: Documentation and the tasks of realismEleni Coundouriotis | pp. 737–750
- Realism in the colonyUlka Anjaria | pp. 751–761
- Notes on contributors: Landscapes of realism Volume II
- Index | p. 767
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