{"product_id":"theories-of-literary-realism-rev-darzo-villanueva-9780791433287","title":"Theories of Literary Realism (Rev)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA comprehensive reexamination of the question of realism in literature, reviewing major critical approaches in Spanish, French, German, and Anglo-American literary tradition, and offering original reader-response-based theory and readings.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRealism has not only shaped important schools and periods in literary history, but has also been a fundamental constant of all literature, its first theoretical formulation being the principle of mimesis in Aristotle's Poetics. Realism can be considered by extension one of the main aspects of literary theory, the aims of which must be to define its concepts clearly and to neutralize the imprecision, polysemy, and ambiguity that often characterized the application of realism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book explores the possibilities and limits of a concept of realism that seeks a point of equilibrium between the principle of the autonomy of the literary work vis-à-vis reality and the complex relations that the work clearly establishes with this reality. It acknowledges that it is a personal response to the poststructuralist crisis in literary theory. By concentrating on the study of the literary work of art as a verbal construction, the great Continental and Anglo-American tradition of formalism and New Criticism has ended up neglecting the second, mimetic aspect of the literary problematic, thus dissociating literature from life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Darío Villanueva\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0791433285\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780791433287\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/24\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 190\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.58lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.91h x 5.85w x 0.48d","brand":"Darío Villanueva","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48448944636159,"sku":"9780791433287","price":33.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9e8dfa47-76b7-4027-ac18-2ddd8b18c341.jpg?v=1777261288","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/theories-of-literary-realism-rev-darzo-villanueva-9780791433287","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}