The Antinomies of Realism

Fredric Jameson

The Antinomies of Realism
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Verso Books
Country
United Kingdom
Published
8 October 2013
Pages
432
ISBN
9781781681336

The Antinomies of Realism

Fredric Jameson

Antinomies of Realism is Jameson’s major study of the nineteenth-century realist novel from a comparative perspective, covering the major literary traditions of Western Europe and the United States. It reviews the most influential theories of artistic and literary realism-and takes an approach based on the social and historical preconditions for its emergence. These combine an attention to the body and its states of feeling as well as to the categories of individualism and temporality (or history). They are studied in a range of major authors, including Zola, Tolstoy, Perez Galdos, and George Eliot.The very notion of such a synthesis or symbiosis implies the approach of a moment in which its two basic impulses begin again to separate, and this explains the gradual supersession of classical realism in the novel by the various forms of what we call modernism. A coda then explains the survival of realistic narratives after the end of classical realism-it is in effect a proposal for the study of popular fiction and mass culture.

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