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03966aam a2200553 i 4500 001 DA286428EE0211ECABFB385646ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220617010046 008 200103t20202020nyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019057865 020 $a 1501362623 020 $a 9781501362620 020 $a 1501362615 020 $a 9781501362613 035 $a (OCoLC)1135093238 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d ZLM $d YDX $d BDX $d YUS $d NYP $d OCLCO $d OCL $d OCLCO $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS228.R38 $b H65 2020 082 00 $a 810.9/112 $2 23 100 1 $a Holland, Mary, $d 1970- $e author. 245 14 $a The moral worlds of contemporary realism / $c Mary K. Holland. 264 1 $a New York : $b Bloomsbury Academic, $c 2020. 300 $a xvii, 288 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm 520 $a "A literary history of our attempts to depict reality through language"-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a "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. What makes this decidedly unorthodox literature "realistic"? And if it is, then what does "realism" mean anymore? Examining literature by dozens of writers, and over a century of theory and criticism about realism, The Moral Worlds of Contemporary Realism 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." -- Publisher's description 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 261 - 277) and index. 505 0 $a Preface : The Problem of "Realism" -- Introduction: A Brief History of Realisms -- 1. Metafictive Realism: David Foster Wallace and the Future of (Meta) Fiction -- 2. The Work of Art after the Mechanical Age: Materiality, Narrative, and the Real in the Fiction of Steve Tomasula -- 3. Material Realism and New Materialism: Literature from the 1990s to the Present -- 4. Quantum Realism: On Ted Chiang's "Story of Your Life" and Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being -- 5. Quantum Realism Case Study: On Don DeLillo's The Body Artist -- Conclusion: Realism and Periodizing after Postmodernism. 648 7 $a 1900-2099 $2 fast 650 0 $a American literature $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a American literature $y 21st century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Realism in literature. 650 0 $a Literature and society. 650 0 $a Modernism (Literature) $z United States. 650 0 $a Postmodernism (Literature) $z United States. 650 7 $a American literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807113 650 7 $a Literature and society. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01000096 650 7 $a Modernism (Literature) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01024455 650 7 $a Postmodernism (Literature) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01073181 650 7 $a Realism in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01091237 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a Literary criticism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01986215 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a Literary criticism. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Critiques litteÌraires. $2 rvmgf $0 (CaQQLa)RVMGF-000001939 776 08 $i ebook version : $z 9781501362644 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117024556.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DA286428EE0211ECABFB385646ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search