Realism and Dialectic: The Speculative Turn and the History of the Nineteenth-Century European Novel
| Autor: | Stefano Ercolino |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Dialectic
Realism dialectic Fredric Jameson speculative turn nineteenth-century European novel Literature and Literary Theory Fredric Jameson speculative turn nineteenth-century European novel Philosophy dialectic Realism 06 humanities and the arts 060202 literary studies Settore L-FIL-LET/14 - Critica Letteraria e Letterature Comparate Aesthetics 0602 languages and literature |
| Popis: | A narrative impulse and a scenic impulse: as Fredric Jameson persuasively argues in The Antinomies of Realism, the history of literary realism has been shaped by the dialectic between these two competing drives, each identified by a specific temporality. Yet realism's dialectic between a narrative and a scenic impulse omits something crucial if we are to understand European realist narrative, especially in the second half of the nineteenth century. This article reassesses Jameson's dialectical view of realism in light of the speculative turn in the history of the European novel in 1860s Russian and 1880s French narrative. I will query Jameson's dialectic of realism and subsume it under a larger dialectical framework encompassing a further, temporally neuter impulse. This is the speculative impulse, which will help us reconsider some of the most important developments of nineteenth-century European realism. |
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