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The Moral Worlds of Contemporary Realism

The Moral Worlds of Contemporary Realism

Holland, Mary K.

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Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1501362623
ISBN13: 9781501362620
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Jul 9 2020
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.14
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

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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