Realism in European Literature

Realism in European Literature
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 215
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ISBN-10 : 0521254876
ISBN-13 : 9780521254878
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Book Synopsis Realism in European Literature by : Nicholas Boyle

Download or read book Realism in European Literature written by Nicholas Boyle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1986-03-31 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this collection, which was originally published in 1986, address fundamental issues of literary realism that have long been given prominence by J. P. Stern, the distinguished writer on German literature and author of the seminal study On Realism. In the prevailing theoretical climate problems associated with literary realism assumed great urgency. Such problems are the notion of literary 'truth to life', the survival of the concept of 'realism' in the light of modern hermeneutical theory, the perspective adopted by the contemporaries of Barthes and inheritors of Nietzsche on the canonical prose writers of the nineteenth century, and the future for an exegetical tradition represented in the work of Erich Auerbach.


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