...Sharae Deckard In Roberto Bolaño’s posthumous magnum opus, 2666 , a type of peripheral realism in which realist aesthetics are impurely intermingled with the irreal is crucial to the novel’s registration of the uneven structural relations of capitalist modernity. This essay explores three layers...

..., location, or people, “China” in this peripheral realism represents the experiential schism between cultural identity and global commodification. Reading Xiao Sa’s novel Song of Dreams as a narrative about the social life of commodities in this context, Liu explores realism’s capacity for diagnosing...

... available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Peripheral Realisms Now Jed Esty and Colleen Lye oe Cleary’s foreword to this issue in part tells the story of how the JCold War skewed the aesthetic valuation of twentieth- century non- Euro- American...

... the elements that Lu Xun’s story cannibalizes from Russian intertexts, which have themselves defied straightforward categorizations such as realism, the article intervenes in long-standing discussions about the nature of realism in modern China and, more broadly, in recent conversations about peripheral...

... to think, talk, and write together about the revitalized place of realism across several subfields in modern literary studies. That led two years later to a special issue of MLQ titled “Peripheral Realisms,” coedited by Colleen and me, with Joe Cleary as a consultant and collaborator (Cleary, Esty...

.... Venkat Mani 2012 Peripheral Realisms . Edited by Joe Cleary, Jed Esty, and Colleen Lye 2011 Literary Value . Edited by Joseph Luzzi and Marshall Brown 2009 Romancing Scotland . Edited by Marshall Brown 2009 Performance and History: What History? Essays in Honor of Herbert Blau...

... realism, requires attention to the cul- tural contexts and structural positions of speci c modernisms as they took shape in a turbulent and changing world- system: some of the semi- peripheral modernisms emerged in countries in the throes of impe- rial collapse (Austria, Russia, Germany, Ottoman...

.../interview-novel-book-london . Esty Jed , and Lye Colleen . 2012 . “ Peripheral Realisms Now .” MLQ 73 , no. 3 : 269 – 88 . Featherstone Mike . 1990 . “ Global Culture: An Introduction .” In Global Culture: Nationalism, Globalization and Modernity , edited by Featherstone...

... given by the condition of caste subjection. When juxtaposed with the anglophone modernist anticaste novel of the s, the contemporary realist Dalit short story demon- strates a peripheral realism that suggests a new temporal and spatial diagram of revolt along with a critique of the long- dominant...

... Press . Esty Jed . 2016 . “ Realism Wars .” Novel: A Forum on Fiction 49 , no. 2 : 316 – 42 . Esty Jed , and Lye Colleen . 2012 . “ Peripheral Realisms Now .” MLQ 73 , no. 3 : 269 – 88 . Forster E. M. 1999 . Howards End . New York : Random House...

... the peripheral aspect of Irish postwar real- ism does not lie in geographic distance from the metropolitan center. Migrant writing and writing about migrants in the s illuminate the interchange of British and Irish modes of realism and documentary. Emigrants or returned emigrants feature in many...

..., not because controlled association is lacking in it, but rather because the direct presentation of free association is usually lacking in other methods of writing. The very scope of the laws of association makes free association and peripheral consciousness mutually exclusive. Free association...

..., book of E. K. Bennett (The German Novelle). An introductory chapter on the history, theory, and distinctive features of the novelle and of poetic realism is followed by eight discussions of notable nineteenth-century novellen : Brentano’s Kasperl und Annerl ; Arnim’s Der tolle Invalide...

... that serve as the primary objects, Reader’s book works accretively, through the collection and surprising juxtaposition of figures. For instance, Gissing appears alongside Barthes as two writers who turn to the note as the solution to the problem of realism. Or, in an intriguing chapter, Hopkins...

...Fredric Jameson Antinomies of the Realism-Modernism Debate Fredric Jameson ealism. Realistic. Real. And why not add reality? These grammatical R variants do not converge on any central meaning, but rather fan out, offering at best some options for classifying all...

... in the periphery are shaped by complex pasts that they are not well placed to comprehend. For historical reasons, peripheral societies lack the institutions and practices required for an adequate grasp of modernity’s profoundly disruptive effects. The globalizing forms of colonialism and capitalism diverted...

... and exhibited through party networks. In contrast to the artists whose naturalistic style the party favored up to this point, the artists Jesty follows practiced an “avant-garde realism” strongly informed by surrealism. The Society for Creative Aesthetic Education, inspired by the educational philosophy...

... Fuller, is valuable although peripheral to the argument. This is a helpful book for students of Mme de Stael, of nineteenth-century literature, of the history of feminism. It is well written and manages the feat of’ being of interest to the specialist and to the general reader. It combines...

... Library, 1953. Pp. xvi + 347. $4.75. As members of Sturm und Drang, Professor Pascal includes only Merck, Herder, Goethe, Lenz, and Klinger. Maler Muller, H. L. Wagner, and Leise- witz are listed as “peripheral and dependent figures” ; “some, like Klopstock, Justus Moser...

.... For Casanova, national realism or literary nationalism, in what- ever genre, represents the most conservative literary tendency. “Con- versely,” she writes, “the autonomy enjoyed by the most literary coun- tries is marked chiefly by the depoliticization of literature: the almost complete disappearance...