The Antinomies of Realism

by Fredric Jameson

Book Overview

The Antinomies of Realism is a history ofthe nineteenth-century realist novel and its legacy told without a glimmer of nostalgia for artistic achievements that the movement of history makes it impossible to recreate. The works of Zola, Tolstoy, P rez Gald s, and George Eliot are in the most profound sense inimitable, yet continue to dominate the novel form to this day. Novels to emerge since struggle to reconcile the social conditions of their...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1781688176
• ISBN13: 9781781688175
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.4" x 8.2"