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Realism
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01 May 1983
TL;DR: This article examined the post-modern phenomenon of fiction as the presentation of theories of fiction and examined the writers critically examined include Nabokov, Woolf, Conrad, Faulkner, Joyce, and Beckett.
Abstract: Interrogating the basic assumptions of realism, this study examines the postmodern phenomenon of fiction as the presentation of theories of fiction. The writers critically examined include Nabokov, Woolf, Conrad, Faulkner, Joyce, and Beckett.
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01 Jan 2002
TL;DR: Menzel was one of the most important German artists of the 19th century, yet he is scarcely known outside his native land as discussed by the authors, and his work has not been widely recognized outside Germany.
Abstract: Adolf Menzel was one of the most important German artists of the 19th century, yet he is scarcely known outside his native land. In this study a leading art historian argues that Menzel deserves to be recognized not only as one of the greatest painters and draftsmen of his century but also as a master realist whose work engages profoundly with an extraordinary range of issues - artistic, scientific, philosophical and socio-political. Michael Fried explores Menzel's large and fascinating oeuvre, and in so doing seeks to make the artist's achievement accessible to a wide audience. Fried compares Menzel's art with that of the 19th-century's two other great realist painters, Courbet and Eakins. Analyzing paintings, drawings and prints from all stages of Menzel's long career, he asserts that the distinctive quality of Menzel's realism is found in his concern with evoking the multi-sensory, fully-embodied relationships of persons with the universe of physical objects, tools and situations. Fried establishes connections between Menzel's work and a broad array of extra-artistic contexts, among them the writings of the empathy theorists, Kierkegaard on reflection and the everyday, Helmholtz on vision, Fontane's "Effi Briest", Duranty's art criticism, Simmel on modern urban life, E.T.A. Hoffmann's "art of seeing", and Benjamin on traces. He also explores the complex relationship between Menzel's version of "extreme" realism and the exactly contemporary technology of photography. The resulting work establishes Menzel as a key artist of modernity.
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01 Jan 1997
TL;DR: In this paper, the picturesque aesthetic and the natural art of song are discussed in the context of art as spectacle in William Thackeray and Charlotte Bronte and George Eliot's hierarchy of representation.
Abstract: Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The picturesque aesthetic and the natural art of song 2. Masterpiece theatres: art as spectacle in William Thackeray and Charlotte Bronte 3. George Eliot's hierarchy of representation 4. Art works: Thomas Hardy and the labor of creation Coda: aestheticism: the erasure of the real Notes Bibliography Index.
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TL;DR: Gramsci was as much a child of Machiavelli as of Marx, and he praised the Florentine for developing a progressive or transformative realism in opposition to the conventional type of realism that seeks only to'manage' the status quo as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The paper begins by expressing some doubts about how Gramsci has been appropriated by the so-called 'Italian School' of International Relations/International Political Economy (IR/IPE) Particularly questionable is the attempt to 'internationalise' his concepts of 'civil society' and 'hegemony', whose respective meanings are sometimes extended beyond Gramscian usage Also dubious is the tendency to assume that his conceptual framework supports a counter-discourse within IR/IPE that contradicts the 'realist' mainstream In his political ideas, Gramsci was as much a child of Machiavelli as of Marx, and he praised the Florentine for developing a progressive or 'transformative' realism in opposition to the conventional type of realism that seeks only to 'manage' the status quo This interpretation of Gramsci as a kind of realist is defended by highlighting three 'Machiavellian' aspects of his thought: (a) his contempt for abstract ideals of justice or democracy, (b) his hostility to 'vague and purely ideological' (his words) internationalism; and (c) his surprising (for a supposed Marxist) doubts about the prospects for a non-coercive and egalitarian society In conclusion, it is pointed out that Gramsci helps us to illustrate a tension at the heart of Marxism: that between utopianism and realism Because of his admiration for Machiavelli, he eventually betrayed second thoughts about Marx's vision of a world without borders or conflict His idea of transformative realism, rather than his concept of hegemony, should perhaps be seen as his chief contribution to IR/IPE
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