Svend Erik Larsen
List of John Benjamins publications in which Svend Erik Larsen is involved.
Book series
ISSN 0238-0668
Title
Landscapes of Realism: Rethinking literary realism in comparative perspectives. Volume II: Pathways through realism
Edited by Svend Erik Larsen, Steen Bille Jørgensen and Margaret R. Higonnet
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… read more[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XXXIII] 2022. xv, 780 pp.
2022 Chapter 2. Referential pathways: Objects and bodies Landscapes of Realism: Rethinking literary realism in comparative perspectives, Larsen, Svend Erik, Steen Bille Jørgensen and Margaret R. Higonnet (eds.) | Section header
2022 Chapter 1. Psychological pathways: Emotion and memory Landscapes of Realism: Rethinking literary realism in comparative perspectives, Larsen, Svend Erik, Steen Bille Jørgensen and Margaret R. Higonnet (eds.) | Section header
2022 “Distance avails not”: Representing the modern masses Landscapes of Realism: Rethinking literary realism in comparative perspectives, Larsen, Svend Erik, Steen Bille Jørgensen and Margaret R. Higonnet (eds.), pp. 317–336 | Article
Around 1850 the major cities in Europe approached the one-million mark. With the influx of people of all kinds, a new urban mass emerged that seemed quite distinct from the well-defined social classes of citizens from top to bottom of society. From that point the urban environment, its objects… read more
2022 Caricature and realism Landscapes of Realism: Rethinking literary realism in comparative perspectives, Larsen, Svend Erik, Steen Bille Jørgensen and Margaret R. Higonnet (eds.), pp. 287–302 | Article
The two dynamic centers of caricature in the nineteenth century were England and France. Here, censorship was flexible enough to create a space for public satire targeting both the new and old social classes and types in the emergent modern society. The satirists mock the elite holding the… read more
2022 Dialogic encounters Landscapes of Realism: Rethinking literary realism in comparative perspectives, Larsen, Svend Erik, Steen Bille Jørgensen and Margaret R. Higonnet (eds.), pp. 565–666 | Article
This core essay directly tackles the dissemination and migration of realist practices beyond the boundaries of Europe (and back), along pathways that are not just linear but rather radiate in many directions and foster circulation and dialogue. The traveling practices are carried by migratory… read more
2022 Chapter 4. Geographical pathways: Worlding realism Landscapes of Realism: Rethinking literary realism in comparative perspectives, Larsen, Svend Erik, Steen Bille Jørgensen and Margaret R. Higonnet (eds.) | Section header
2022 “Memories inwrought with affection”: Emotion and memory in realism Landscapes of Realism: Rethinking literary realism in comparative perspectives, Larsen, Svend Erik, Steen Bille Jørgensen and Margaret R. Higonnet (eds.), pp. 29–133 | Article
With the development of the secular urbanized and industrialized society from the mid-eighteenth century, traditional ways of life lost authority and opened for new approaches to the past, and in the same period emotions began to be seen as a fundamental and universal core of humanity.… read more
2022 Introduction Landscapes of Realism: Rethinking literary realism in comparative perspectives, Larsen, Svend Erik, Steen Bille Jørgensen and Margaret R. Higonnet (eds.), pp. 1–26 | Chapter
Pathways through realism, the second of the two volumes within the Landscapes of realism project, is the most recent addition to the series A comparative history of literatures in European languages. The Introduction to Volume I, Mapping realism, also serves as a general introduction to the… read more
2021 Mobile spaces: The impact of traveling in realism Landscapes of Realism: Rethinking literary realism in comparative perspectives, Göttsche, Dirk, Rosa Mucignat and Robert Weninger (eds.), pp. 337–356 | Sub-chapter
During the nineteenth century more of the world came to Europe than before, and a growing number of Europeans ventured to places other than their own, also beyond European borders. The general mobility of places and people quickened and did so because of new technologies that expanded transport,… read more
2021 Fleeting moments and unstable spaces: Explorations of time and space in realism Landscapes of Realism: Rethinking literary realism in comparative perspectives, Göttsche, Dirk, Rosa Mucignat and Robert Weninger (eds.), pp. 247–320 | Sub-chapter
From the end of the eighteenth and through the nineteenth century science, philosophy and socio-political changes spawned fundamental reconfigurations of the Western experience and understanding of spatio-temporality. Challenging writers to radically reconceptualize their understanding of time… read more
2021 Chapter 3. Time and space Landscapes of Realism: Rethinking literary realism in comparative perspectives, Göttsche, Dirk, Rosa Mucignat and Robert Weninger (eds.), pp. 245–413 | Chapter
2017 Myth and meaning of foreign lightscapes in Nordic literatures 2: The geographic elsewhere Nordic Literature: A comparative history, Sondrup, Steven P., Mark B. Sandberg, Thomas A. DuBois and Dan Ringgaard (eds.), pp. 314–337 | Chapter
2017 Myth and meaning of foreign lightscapes in Nordic literatures 1: The imaginary elsewhere Nordic Literature: A comparative history, Sondrup, Steven P., Mark B. Sandberg, Thomas A. DuBois and Dan Ringgaard (eds.), pp. 291–313 | Chapter
1994 Representation and Intersemiosis Peirce and Value Theory: On Peircian ethics and aesthetics, Parret, Herman (ed.), pp. 255–276 | Article