...Megan Ward Critics have struggled to account for realist characters’ development on the repetitive timescale of Victorian domestic realism, which is devoted to representing the sameness of daily routine. This essay argues that this struggle stems from literary criticism’s implicit reliance...

...Benjamin Mangrum This essay reexamines the conventional opposition in genre criticism between modern realism and classical tragedy. By adapting Roland Barthes’s account of realist representation with J. L. Austin’s theory of speech-acts, the essay shows that epistemological skepticism animates...

...Ben Parker Genre, Vol. 53, No. 3 December 2020 DOI 10.1215/00166928-8847240 © 2020 by University of Oklahoma Reviews Cluster: Form ben parker Anna Kornbluh, The Order of Forms: Realism, Formalism, and Social Space, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. In Bunyan s The Pilgrim s Progress, we...

...Margaret E. Johnson This article argues that the American series Queer as Folk (2000–2005) uses a combination of melodrama and realism to engage the viewer both emotionally and logically in the consideration of current issues significant to the gay community, in particular HIV/AIDS, gay parenting...

... the post-Enlightenment project of ideological critique, the unmasking of concealed truth, although he has lost faith in the efficacy of this project. Sloterdijk's account provides a fascinating analogue to European detective figures noted for their “authenticity” or “realism,” and the Wallander series...

...Eric D. Smith Central to the polarizing discussions of the late-period work of V. S. Naipaul has been the author’s apparent faithfulness to methods—and political presuppositions—derived from nineteenth-century British models of literary realism. This essay explores Naipaul’s pivotal late-period...

...Siân White This article responds to debates about the “big, ambitious novel” and “hysterical realism” by challenging several prevailing scholarly orthodoxies about large‐scale fiction: that whole world‐building precludes the rendering of a single, feeling human; that mimesis and “hysterical” traits...

...Joe Kennedy William Sansom belongs to a loose category of British novelists working around World War II and in the wake of prewar modernism who produced fictions recapitulating neither high modernism's assertive experimentation nor the 1930s retreat into social realism. While this writing failed...

...Rafael Walker This essay argues that Ellen Glasgow's 1925 novel Barren Ground is an attempt to adapt literary realism, perennially viewed as the handmaiden of liberal individualism, to an age in which individualism was being replaced by more corporate and associational paradigms. To do so, Glasgow...

... “strangers,” “outsiders,” and “others,” the notion of stigma best describes how these characters fit into Shakespeare’s dramatic vision. As such this essay combines the sociologist Erving Goffman’s theory of stigma with the literary historian Erich Auerbach’s account of “figural realism” to establish...

...—as it relates to an analogous formal process here named the sensorytextual screen . The author shows how presumptions of what constitutes an abled body inflect the (dis)abled realism of Joyce’s novel, which at once depicts and mocks ableist presumptions. Representations of blindness, sight, and low vision thus...

... , the introduction objects to his designation “hysterical realism” to characterize Smith's and other writer's publishing novels in the genre that literary scholarship has called encyclopedic, systems, maximalist, mega, and novels of information. The current debate in literary studies over the methods of postcritique...

... in To the Lighthouse uses the logic of the gothic sublime as a model for exploring human character. The gothic sublime illuminates in Woolf's theory of consciousness a striking functional resemblance between the mimetic realism of photography and the abstract representations of formalist art. By virtue...

...Maaheen Ahmed; Shiamin Kwa In his discussion of the “big, ambitious novel,” James Wood dismisses both male and female authors but singles out Zadie Smith's White Teeth for most of his critique of what he terms “hysterical realism.” For Wood, recent long novels display too much imagination...

... . Kaplan Amy . The Social Construction of American Realism . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1988 . Kang Youwei . “ Datong Shu .” Ed. Weizheng Zhu . Kang Youwei Datonglun Liang Zhong . Hong Kong : Sanlian Shudian , 1998 . Lee Erika . At America's Gates...

... be a measure of its syncretism, as critics draw on the resources of formalism and its alternatives at once. But the simultaneous arrival of Character and Character as Form suggests that syncretism is on the way out, and that the argument between formalism and realism—or for their compatibility—will have...

... realism and its extensions, then, we find that “characters are made of other people, objects, and genres” (73). Instead of the individual whose hard-fought integrity sets them in conflict with their surroundings, we get a “personality” formed at the intersection of social and literary conventions...

... the reader with a paradoxical definition culled from the situational chaos of disoriented nihilism. In the second essay, Jason Holt boldly attempts to define neo-noir (1965- Present) in "A Darker Shade: Realism in Neo-Noir." Holt begins broadly by claiming that neo-noir movies are "a type...

... of Indigenous knowledge even as it is subject to transformation upon contact with contradictory ideological and epistemological frameworks. Copyright © 2021 by University of Oklahoma 2021 Aboriginal Australian literature literary canon formation magic realism third space Alexis Wright's second...

... . “The Bildungsroman and Its Significance in the History of Realism.” In Speech Genres and Other Late Essays . Edited by Emerson Caryl Holquist Michael , translated by McGee Vern W. , 10 – 59 . Austin : University of Texas Press . Berndt Katrin . 2005 . Female Identity in Contemporary...