Becker Documents of Modern Literary Realism

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-4008-7464-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 622 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

Using selections by American, British, French, German, Russian, Scandinavian, Spanish, Portuguese, and South American critics and authors, Professor Becker illustrates how realism arose as a reaction to romanticism, and how the practitioners of realism developed conflicting ideas about the means they should use and the ends toward which they should strive. The selections are concerned mainly with prose, since, according to the author, prose fiction has been the major vehicle of realism.

Originally published in 1963.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Becker, George Joseph

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter, pg. i
Preface, pg. v
Contents, pg. ix
Introduction, pg. 1
On Realistic Poetry, pg. 41
"Life and Aesthetics", pg. 44
"On Realism", pg. 80
On Realism, pg. 89
Two Views of of Madame Bovary, pg. 97
"The World of Balzac", pg. 105
On Realism, pg. 112
On True Novels, pg. 117
On Realism, pg. 120
"Ideals and Idealists", pg. 122
On Truth in Fiction, pg. 129
On Veritism, pg. 137
Contemporary Society as Novelistic Material, pg. 147
"True Art Speaks Plainly", pg. 154
On the Rougon-Macquart Series, pg. 159
"The Experimental Novel", pg. 162
"Naturalism in the Theatre", pg. 197
"Emile Zola and L'Assommoir", pg. 230
"Nana", pg. 236
Levels of Realism, pg. 244
"The Lower Elements", pg. 247
"For and Against Zola", pg. 251
On Spanish Realism, pg. 261
What Naturalism Is Not, pg. 266
"The New Naturalism", pg. 274
"A Typical Novel", pg. 296
On Russian and French Realism, pg. 310
"Manifesto of Five Against La Terre", pg. 344
Pernicious Literature, pg. 350
"The Limits of Realism in Fiction", pg. 383
Naturalism in the Theatre, pg. 394
Naturalism Is Not Dead, pg. 407
"Guy de Maupassant", pg. 412
"A Natural History of American Naturalism", pg. 429
"The Naturalism of Mr. Dreiser", pg. 452
"A Literary Manifesto: The Populist Novel", pg. 465
On Portuguese Neo-Realism, pg. 468
On Socialist Realism, pg. 483
Comments on Socialist Realism, pg. 486
"A Defense of Realism", pg. 489
"Emile Zola", pg. 506
"A Defense of Naturalism", pg. 535
On the Falsity of Realism, pg. 549
"Conclusions and Applications", pg. 565
"Notes on the Decline of Naturalism", pg. 579
"The Realistic Fallacy", pg. 591
A Short Bibliography of History and Criticism, pg. 599
Index, pg. 605