The Moral Worlds Of Contemporary Realism
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The Moral Worlds of Contemporary Realism
Author | : Mary K. Holland |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2020-06-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781501362644 |
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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.
The Moral Worlds of Contemporary Realism
Author | : Mary K. Holland |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2020-06-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781501362637 |
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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.
Ethical Realism
Author | : Anatol Lieven,John Hulsman |
Publsiher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2009-03-12 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780307495334 |
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America today faces a world more complicated than ever before, but our politicians have failed to envision a foreign policy that addresses our greatest threats. Ethical Realism shows how the United States can successfully combine genuine morality with tough and practical common sense. By outlining core principles and a set of concrete proposals for tackling the terrorist threat and contend with Iran, Russia, the Middle East, and China, Anatol Lieven and John Hulsman show us how to strengthen our security, pursue our national interests, and restore American leadership in the world.
Succeeding Postmodernism
Author | : Mary K. Holland |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2013-04-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781441159342 |
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While critics collect around the question of what comes "after postmodernism," this book asks something different about recent American fiction: what if we are seeing not the end of postmodernism but its belated success? Succeeding Postmodernism examines how novels by DeLillo, Wallace, Danielewski, Foer and others conceptualize threats to individuals and communities posed by a poststructural culture of mediation and simulation, and possible ways of resisting the disaffected solipsism bred by that culture. Ultimately it finds that twenty-first century American fiction sets aside the postmodern problem of how language does or does not mean in order to raise the reassuringly retro question of what it can and does mean: it finds that novels today offer language as solution to the problem of language. Thus it suggests a new way of reading "antihumanist" late postmodern fiction, and a framework for understanding postmodern and twenty-first century fiction as participating in a long and newly enlivened tradition of humanism and realism in literature.
Aristotle s Moral Realism Reconsidered
Author | : Pavlos Kontos |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2013-03 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781136649882 |
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This book elaborates a moral realism of phenomenological inspiration by introducing the idea that moral experience, primordially, constitutes a perceptual grasp of actions and of their solid traces in the world. The main thesis is that, before any reference to values or to criteria about good and evil—that is, before any reference to specific ethical outlooks—one should explain the very materiality of what necessarily constitutes the ‘moral world’. These claims are substantiated by means of a text- centered interpretation of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics in dialogue with contemporary moral realism. The book concludes with a critique of Heidegger’s, Gadamer’s and Arendt’s approaches to Aristotle’s ethics.
The Lime Twig
Author | : John Hawkes |
Publsiher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0811200655 |
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But it would be unfair to the reader to reveal what happens when a gang of professional crooks gets wind of the scheme and moves to muscle in on this bettors' dream of a long-odds situation. Worked out with all the meticulous detail, terror, and suspense of a nightmare, the tale is, on one level, comparable to a Graham Greene thriller; on another, it explores a group of people, their relationships fears, and loves. For as Leslie A. Fiedler says in his introduction, "John Hawkes.. . makes terror rather than love the center of his work, knowing all the while, of course, that there can be no terror without the hope for love and love's defeat . . . ."
Moral Realism
Author | : Kevin DeLapp |
Publsiher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2013-04-11 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781441161185 |
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An accessible and original overview of contemporary debates in moral realism and relativism.
Richard Ford and the Ends of Realism
Author | : Ian McGuire |
Publsiher | : University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2015-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781609383435 |
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"An original exploration of the work of writer Richard Ford in the context of its place within contemporary debates about the possible role, meaning of, and value of literary realism in a postmodern age"--