Forecasts of the Past: Globalisation, History, Realism, Utopia

by Dougal McNeill

Whatever happened to realism? What form is adequate to representing our moment, situated as we are after the end of 'the end of History'? In the face of youth revolts and workers' insurgencies from Cairo to London, it seems a good time to test the possibilities of alternative Marxist defences of contemporary realist fiction. Can realism's techniques adequately represent the complexity of contemporary political organisation? This book reads key realist...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3034308752
• ISBN13: 9783034308755
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"