Tragic Realism and Modern Society : Studies in the Sociology of the Modern Novel

Front Matter....Pages i-x Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Lukács, Williams, Auerbach: Tragedy and Mimesis....Pages 3-15 Repudiations of Realism I: Critical Theory....Pages 16-24 Repudiations of Realism II: Formalism and Genetic Structuralism....Pages 25-40 Tragic Realism and the Political Novel....Pages 41-49 Front Matter....Pages 51-51 Tolstoy and Dostoevsky: Passion and Russian Society....Pages 53-72 Dostoevsky: the demonic Tendenz ....Pages 73-86 Zola: Germinal and Tragic Praxis ....Pages 87-98 Conrad: the New Meaning of Tragic Irony....Pages 99-114 Thomas Mann: Bourgeois Affirmation and Artistic Tragedy....Pages 115-132 The Severed Continuum: Soviet Realism and the Case of The Silent Don ....Pages 133-142 Malraux and Hemingway: The Myth of Tragic Humanism....Pages 143-159 George Orwell: The Nightmare of the Real....Pages 160-171 Solzhenitsyn: The Permanence of Tragedy....Pages 172-187 Conclusion: Tragic Realism and Modern Society....Pages 188-192 Back Matter....Pages 193-204