Landscapes of Realism : Rethinking literary realism in comparative perspectives. Volume II: Pathways through realism

LANDSCAPES OF REALISM RETHINKING LITERARY REALISM IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES VOLUME II: PATHWAYS THROUGH REALISM Editorial page Title page Copyright page In memoriam Patrizia Lombardo (1950–2019) Table of contents List of illustrations Editors’ preface and acknowledgments Note on translations, cross-references and documentation Introduction 1. Landscapes of realism 1.2 Research drivers and specifications 2. Pathways through realism 2.1 The four pathways 2.2 A Doll’s House 3. Chapters, core essays and case studies Works cited Chapter 1. Psychological pathways: Emotion and memory Core essay. “Memories inwrought with affection”: Emotion and memory in realism 1. In the wake of revolution 2. The long eighteenth century 2.1 Prejudice and passion 2.2 “The vulgar practice of the moment” 2.3 The thrill of the new 3. First transformation: Social vision descends into social frustration 3.1 Between legal contract and national identity 3.2 National illusions and realities of war 3.3 Revolution as emotion 4. Second transformation: Self-fulfillment turns into self-disillusionment 4.1 Self-education in a blind alley 4.2 The superfluous man 4.3 Passions for or against life? 5. Third transformation: From frail friendship to haunted homes 5.1 The unreadable other 5.2 The delicate balance of friendship 5.3 Love or honor? 6. Fourth transformation: Alienating settings yield sublime awe 6.1 Landscape and cityscape 6.2 The natural and the technological sublime 7. Coda: Turning the century 7.1 New theories 7.2 “At the heart of a vast enigma” 7.3 Into the twentieth century Works cited Case studies. The interplay between emotion and memory: Stendhal, Zola, Musil 1. Realism in context 2. Toward realism 3. The case Stendhal-Zola 4. The case Stendhal-Musil 5. Conclusion Works cited Situations of sympathy: Eroding emotions and everyday life in the realist novel 1. Domestic emotions in crisis 2. History of terms 3. Home and homelessness: Bleak House 4. After marriage: Anna Karenina 5. Exile at home: Hunger 6. Concluding remarks Works cited The poetics of disgust in realist fiction: Émile Zola and Sofi Oksanen 1. Disgust: An ambivalent emotion 2. Effects of truth and horror 3. The allure of disgust 4. Triggering disgust, debating morality 5. Concluding remarks Works cited Attunement: Mood and memory in Goethe, Flaubert and Dickens 1. Introduction: Mood, atmosphere, attunement 2. Goethe: Self-fulfillment 3. Flaubert: Disillusionment 4. Dickens: Contentment 5. Conclusion: The temporality of moods Works cited Spanish and Latin American memory novels 1. The novelized memory of troubled pasts in Spain and Latin America 2. Spanish realism and the memory novel 3. Trauma literature and the affiliative memory novel 4. The social function of the memory novel Works cited 1. Memory novels 2. Other works History and untold memories: New historical realism in Assia Djebar’s cinema 1. Contextualizing Assia Djebar’s films 2. History and aesthetics 2.1 History and film 2.2 Djebar’s aesthetic strategy 3. The Nouba of the Women from Mount Chenoua 3.1 Overlapping narratives 3.2 Overlapping soundscapes 4. The Zerda and the Songs of Forgetfulness 4.1 Narrative strategies in The Zerda 4.2 Photos in motion 4.3 Women and landscapes 5. A new historical realism Works cited Chapter 2. Referential pathways: Objects and bodies Core essay. Material matters: The surfaces of realist fiction 1. Surfaces: The outsides of realism 2. Objects: The material in the fictional 3. Clothing: Presenting the self 4. The body as object: The material of the self 5. Physical beauty: Valuing bodies 6. Producing the self: Environments 7. Framing the self: Beautiful environments 8. Abstracting the object: Money 9. Material does matter Works cited Case studies. Curating realism in a world of objects: Collecting in Charles Dickens and Arthur Conan Doyle 1. Objects on display 2. Museums in Victorian poetry and prose 2.1 The museum as temple and stronghold 2.2 The museum as educator 2.3 The museum as mausoleum 3. Collecting nature 3.1 Dinosaurs 3.2 The end of romance 4. The detective as museum curator 5. Museums: Free association and deduction Works cited Caricature and realism 1. Ambiguous stereotyping 2. Being oneself and another 3. Caricature as public engagement 4. Is this caricature? Works cited Realism and allegory: Balzac, Dickens and James 1. Spectrality 2. Balzac: The Wild Ass’s Skin 3. Dickens: The Old Curiosity Shop 4. James: The Golden Bowl 5. Realism and the unknown Works cited “Distance avails not”: Representing the modern masses 1. The individual and the masses 2. The individual as part of the masses 2.1 Visualizing the masses 2.2 Narrating the masses 3. Coda: A needle in a haystack Works cited Toward affective realism: Performing the reverse side of the face 1. Affective realism 2. Faceless encounters in modernist literature: Rilke and Weiner 3. When forms become formless 4. The faceless for real: Gueules cassées 5. Conclusion: Rewriting the shock Acknowledgements Funding Works cited Posthumanism and realism 1. Introduction: The posthuman take on reality 2. Shelley and the hypercanonical posthuman 3. Human-animal relations: Kafka and Musil 4. Contrapuntal chronicles: Houellebecq and the decadent present 5. Octavia E. Butler and the alien view 6. Conclusion Works cited Core essay. Dynamics of realist forms 1. Introduction: New forms, new realities 1.1 Reflexiveness and composition 1.2 Openness 2. Giving form to social reality 2.1 Beyond traditional formal models 2.2 Poetry and everyday life 2.3 A pictorial turn 3. Popular culture and formal innovation 3.1 New audiences and the democratization of culture 3.2 Popular forms and new aesthetic ideals 3.3 Literary models and systemic worldviews 4. Critical positions between fiction and reality 4.1 Prefaces and the battle of realism 4.2 Theatricality and irony 4.3 Narrative masks: Women’s writing and female readership 5. Scaling and rescaling 5.1 Scale, perception and reading 5.2 Shorter forms 6. Concluding perspective: Beyond realism? 6.1 Collage novels and language poetry 6.2 Short short stories 6.3 Concrete poetry 6.4 Readymades 6.5 Interactive forms 7. The questioning continues Works cited Case studies. Forms of realism in children’s literature 1. Problems of definition 2. Encyclopedic or alphabetic realism 3. Playful realism and illusions through motion 4. Periodical: Mixed audiences and disciplines 5. Historical fiction 6. Problem fiction 7. Conclusion Works cited Early theatrical realism on page and stage: Zola, Ibsen, Strindberg 1. Zola’s crusade for realism 2. Ibsen’s realism: Theory and practice 3. August Strindberg’s “great naturalism” 4. The art theatres: The Théâtre Libre, the Freie Bühne, and the Independent Theatre 5. Coda: The quintessence of Ibsenism Works cited Poetry, Pessoa and realism 1. Introduction: On realism in poetry 2. Pessoa and heteronyms 3. Caeiro’s poetry 4. The everyday and metaphysics 5. Pessoa and hysteria 6. The “dissociation of sensibility” 7. “Autopsychography” 8. Autobiography Acknowledgements Works cited The making of the historical narrative in the Swahili utenzi: The realism of a poetic form 1. Introduction: Genre as a modeling device for the perception of reality 2. History-writing in Swahili and the utenzi tradition 2.1 Swahili history-writing 2.2 Utenzi: Form, content and genre 3. Continuity or disjunctures?: Tenzi in pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial times 4. Fiction as reality, reality as fiction: Utenzi as history-writing 5. Conclusion Works cited 1. Tenzi 2. Other works Photography and dissent in John Lewis’s graphic novel March 1. American counter-narratives: Documentary in the graphic novel 2. Photography and dissent in John Lewis’s March 3. Contested freedom as visual experiment 4. Perspective: The mutability of sequential representation Works cited The visions of John Ball: Iain Bell’s opera In Parenthesis 1. In Parenthesis: A war poem and an opera 2. Adaptive transcoding 3. Ending the poem and the opera Acknowledgements Works cited Chapter 4. Geographical pathways: Worlding realism Core essay. Dialogic encounters 1. Worlding and realism 2. Literature of migration 2.1 Reconceptualizing migration 3. Across the pacific 3.1 Realism of projection 3.2 Realism of exchange 4. The world at war 4.1 Cosmopolitan dialogues through new media 4.2 Voices at first-hand: Soldiers 4.3 Truth of things 4.4 Medical realism 4.5 Writing back from the colonies 5. “A second tradition” for “translated men” 5.1 Place: Troubled homes 6. Language: In the contact zones 6.1 Translation as cultural interaction 6.2 Tackling the language barriers 7. Coda: Different realities, alternative realist practices 7.1 African spirits and digital identities 7.2 Trapped in cyberspace 7.3 The question remains Works cited Varieties of theatrical realism after Ibsen 1. The irreverent realism of Bernard Shaw 2. A zenith of theatrical realism: Anton Chekhov and the Moscow Art Theatre 3. The Irish Renaissance: The poetic realism of Synge and O’Casey 4. Pirandello’s art: Realism in the service of questioning reality 5. The importance of realism in post-realism: Brecht’s epic theatre 6. Nothing but the real: German documentary drama 7. The American case: Theatrical realism in the United States 8. The staying power of theatrical realism Works cited Is there a notion of ‘realism’ in traditional China? 1. Introduction 2. Ancient forms of ‘realism’ in Chinese historiography 3. Texts and theories in ancient China 4. Conclusion Works cited Worlding of realism: The case of Naguib Mahfouz 1. Global reception of Mahfouzian realism 2. The intercultural context of Mahfouz’s realism 3. Realism in Mahfouz’s cinematic world 4. The politics of realism and reception of Mahfouz’s novels 5. Mahfouzian language and realist aesthetics 6. The politics of reception and the worlding of realism Works cited 1. Novels by Najīb Maḥfūz (Naguib Mahfouz) 2. Film scripts for Salah Abu Seif 3. Filmography 4. Other works The real magic in Miguel Ángel Asturias’s Magical Realism: Legends of Guatemala and The President 1. Introduction 2. Magical Realism 3. Asturias and Magical Realism 3.1 The beginning of Magical Realism 3.2 Legends of Guatemala 3.3 The President 4. The Good, the bad, and the cool: Magical Realism as world literature Works cited Narrate or describe: Documentation and the tasks of realism 1. Documenting the ordinary: Palestine and South Africa 2. Narrative complexity in African realism: Textuality and visuality 3. Realism between dark and light places 4. Conclusions Works cited Realism in the colony 1. Realism and anti-realism 2. Realism in the twenty-first century 3. Adiga, Prakash and Bhagat 4. Coda: A contemporary realism Works cited Notes on contributors: Landscapes of Realism Volume II Index 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. 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) https://www.benjamins.com/series/chlel/chlel_special_offer_realism.pdf "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 exploration 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 first volume tackles in its five core essays and twenty-five case studies such questions as why realism emerged when it did, why and how it developed such a transformative dynamic across languages, to what extent realist poetics remain central to art and popular culture after 1900, and how generally to reassess realism from a twenty-first-century comparative perspective"-- Provided by publisher