{"product_id":"the-moral-worlds-of-contemporary-mary-k-holland-9781501362613","title":"The Moral Worlds of Contemporary Realism","description":"Literature has never looked weirder--full of images, colors, gadgets, and footnotes, and violating established norms of character, plot, and narrative structure. Yet over the last 30 years, critics have coined more than 20 new \"realisms\" in their attempts to describe it. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWhat makes this decidedly unorthodox literature \"realistic\"? And if it is, then what does \"realism\" mean anymore?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Examining literature by dozens of writers, and over a century of theory and criticism about realism, \u003ci\u003e The Moral Worlds of Contemporary Realism\u003c\/i\u003e sorts through the current critical confusion to illustrate how our ideas about what is real and how best to depict it have changed dramatically, especially in recent years. Along the way, Mary K. Holland guides the reader on a lively tour through the landscape of contemporary literary studies--taking in metafiction, ideology, posthumanism, postmodernism, and poststructuralism--with forays into quantum mechanics, new materialism, and Buddhism as well, to give us entirely new ways of viewing how humans use language to make sense of--and to make--the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mary K. Holland\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501362615\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501362613\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/09\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.11lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.75d","brand":"Mary K. Holland","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47425299120383,"sku":"9781501362613","price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_72fe80e1-2949-4ef8-8338-00358609d1ec.jpg?v=1761538284","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-moral-worlds-of-contemporary-mary-k-holland-9781501362613","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}