Beschreibung:
This 1986 collection addresses fundamental issues of literary realism that have long been given prominence by J. P. Stern.
Foreword; Note on the text; 1. Notes on language, its deconstruction and on translating Erich Heller; 2. Significant objects: a possibility of realism in early narratives Wolfgang Harms; 3. 'Enter Mariners, wet': realism in Shakespeare's last plays Anne Barton; 4. Language and reality in Bleak House Graham Hough; 5. The problem of nineteenth-century German realism Martin Swales; 6. Proust's Balzac Sheila Stern; 7. Realism, modernism, and 'language-consciousness' Stephen Health; 8. Nietzche and the 'middle mode of discourse' Nicholas Boyle; 9. Fabricating histories Paul Connerton; 10. Ounces of example: Henry James, philosopher Renford Bambrough; 11. Afterthoughts on realism Richard Brinkmann; Index.