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Mary K. Holland - Moral Worlds of Contemporary Realism, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

Moral Worlds of Contemporary Realism

Av Mary K. Holland

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Literature has never looked weirder--full of images, colors, gadgets, and footnotes, and violating established norms of character, plot, and narrative structure. Yet over the last 30 years, critics have coined more than 20 new “realisms” in their attempts to describe it. What makes this decidedly unorthodox literature “realistic”? And if it is, then what does “realism” mean anymore?Examining literature by dozens of writers, and over a century of theory and criticism about realism, The Moral Worlds of Contemporary Realism sorts through the current critical confusion to illustrate how our ideas about what is real and how best to depict it have changed dramatically, especially in recent years. Along the way, Mary K. Holland guides the reader on a lively tour through the landscape of contemporary literary studies--taking in metafiction, ideology, posthumanism, postmodernism, and poststructuralism--with forays into quantum mechanics, new materialism, and Buddhism as well, to give us entirely new ways of viewing how humans use language to make sense of--and to make--the world.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2020-07-09
  • Mått: 140 x 216 x 23 mm
  • Vikt: 454 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 312
  • Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
  • ISBN: 9781501362620
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Mary K. Holland is Professor of English at The State University of New York, New Paltz, USA. She is the author of Succeeding Postmodernism: Language and Humanism in Contemporary American Literature (Bloomsbury 2013) and co-editor, with Stephen J. Burn, of Approaches to Teaching David Foster Wallace (2019).

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A brilliant and scholarly theoretical synthesis of realism in America … Three new types of Realism are illustrated in the following chapters devoted to authors such as David Foster Wallace, Steve Tomasula, Ted Chiang, Ruth Ozeki, Don DeLillo, and an impressive number of other writers that testifies to Holland’s broad and erudite knowledge of the literary production of the new millennium … Holland draws up a particularly convincing inventory of the most recent and innovative object-texts called ‘artifacts’ or ‘assemblages’ that further dissolve the distinction between language and matter … brilliantly commented upon and analyzed. The most innovative and impressive contribution of the book, which together reveals Holland’s talents for fine reading, theoretical elaboration, and research, appears in the final chapters on quantum realism and DeLillo’s The Body Artist (2001) in particular, of which she delivers a masterful interpretation and an exciting study of the manuscripts available at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin … A luminous, dense, complex, and convincing book that should be read by every student interested in ‘post-postmodern’ fiction and theory.

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