... the appearance of Publication have not been years lost for scholarship, but rather years of further collecting, refining, and perfecting. RICHARDF. WILKIE University of Wahington Realism and Reality: Studies in the German Novelle of Poetic Realism...

...Jon Erickson Figural Realism: Studies in the Mimesis Effect . By Hayden White. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. xii + 205 pp. © 2002 University of Washington 2002 Reviews How Milton Works. By Stanley Fish. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Har- vard University...

...Rosemarie Bodenheimer The Serious Pleasures of Suspense: Victorian Realism and Narrative Doubt . By Caroline Levine. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press,2003. xi + 237 pp. © 2005 University of Washington 2005 Rosemarie Bodenheimer is professor of English at Boston College...

...Joe Cleary Realism after Modernism and the Literary World- System Joe Cleary e need, but lack, comprehensive theories and historical atlases Wof twentieth- century realism. Many of the magisterial histories of realism, those on which most contemporary criticism still...

...Susan Z. Andrade This essay traces the critical history of African novels; it aligns “postcolonial reading” with the rise of poststructuralism in the United States and the United Kingdom. It correctively reads for realism three novels, all published in 1968 and not usually considered mimetic: Le...

... that what might seem conceptual separations (romance/realism or realism/modernism) were complicated by the terms of the colonial cultural and literary relationship itself — by the encounter between forms codified in Europe and the incomplete colonial project. Colonized writers needed an aesthetic ideology...

... fictional movement against casteism, atrocity, and historical elision has effectively embraced the ideologies of realism while developing a strident critique of modernist aesthetics. This essay deconstructs that realist turn by tracing it through the question of caste. Gajarawala reads the present embrace...

...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...

...Clair Wills Irish realism of the 1960s has often been interpreted as a continuation and rejuvenation of the tradition of Irish naturalism, particularly in its concern to undermine the perceived romanticism of revivalist myths in postindependence Ireland. While Irish realist social critique...

...Petrus Liu Reconstructing modernist fiction from 1970s Taiwan as a critical realism, this essay proposes that the historical creation of two Chinas (the Republic of China on Taiwan and the People’s Republic of China) provided a formative stage for vibrant literary ruminations on the dissonance...

...Yoon Sun Lee This essay examines how the concept of realism applies to minor literature by retrieving and expanding Georg Lukács’s understanding of realism as the deliberate negation of modernism. In Lukács’s view, realism distinctively expresses an aspiration to totality. Its most important device...

... 2012 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 the multiple...

... and imaginative possibilities associated with the Romantic. However, this apparent tension between romance and the real ought to be seen as the dialectical face of a historicism that sought to master temporality by ending it with the arrival of the modern. The shifting narrative tenses of both realism...

...Liam Lanigan Abstract This essay explores how John Lanchester’s Capital adapts classical realism to represent the contemporary global city; it pays particular attention to how London’s position in the world-system disrupts Lukácsian totality. Because the novel attends to the complexity...

...Anita Patterson © 2000 University of Washington 2000 MLQ 61.4-04Patterson.final 11/13/00 2:08 PM Page 651 Jazz, Realism, and the Modernist Lyric: The Poetry of Langston Hughes Anita Patterson n 1940 Richard Wright, praising Langston...

... of such ele- gant treatment. American Catholic Arts and Fictions is a remarkable achieve- ment as well as a historical event. James T. Fisher, Yale University Escape from the Wasteland: Romanticism and Realism in the Fiction of Mishima Yukio and Oe Xenzaburo...

...Theodore Huters David Derwei Wang. New York: Columbia University Press, 1992. xix + 367 pp. $45.00. Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 120 MLQI March 1994 Fictional Realism in Twentieth-Century China: Ma0 hn,Lao She, Shen...

... tentatively titled Falling: Revolutions in Science and Literature . Chance and the Eighteenth-Century Novel: Realism, Probability, Magic . By Molesworth Jesse . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2010 . x + 275 pp. Reviews Chance and the Eighteenth-­Century Novel: Realism...

...Joyce Wexler In 1929 Alfred Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz was not only compared to Ulysses but also hailed as a prime example of the postwar movement called magic realism. This junction led directly to landmark magic realist texts by Günter Grass, Gabriel García Márquez, and Salman Rushdie...

... that, for all their skepticism regarding the writer’s task, they kept on writing and produced a literary corpus that is un- surpassed elsewhere in the twentieth century. THEODOREZIOLKOWSKI Princeton University Tragic Realism and Modern Society...