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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29220560 Title: Literary realism and the ekphrastic tradition Author: Mack Smith Publisher: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©1995. ISBN/ISSN: 027101329X 9780271013299 0271011297 9780271011295 OCLC:29220560

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Literary realism and the ekphrastic tradition

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Literary realism and the ekphrastic tradition

Author:	Mack Smith
Publisher:	University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©1995.
Edition/Format:	Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	Literary Realism and the Ekphrastic Tradition examines representative texts and the theories of realism upon which they are based. It studies the foundations of these theories in the philosophies of language contemporaneous with them. Beginning with Adamicism, Mack Smith looks at the way humanist, rationalist, empiricist, Kantian, positivist, and poststructuralist theories of language are textually dramatized. He Read more...
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Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Mack Smith Find more information about:
ISBN:	027101329X 9780271013299 0271011297 9780271011295
OCLC Number:	29220560
Description:	x, 269 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents:	1. Ekphrasis and the Realist Novel: The Paradigm of Competing Paradigms -- 2. Chivalry Decoded: Dialogistic and Perspectivist Voices in Don Quixote -- 3. Fancy and Understanding and the Ekphrastic Riddles of Emma -- 4. Tolstoy's Supranatural Sensualism -- 5. Ulysses and the Journey from the Tonic of Discourse -- 6. The Postmodern Subject in the Paracinematic Reality of Gravity's Rainbow -- App. I. Painting and the Nineteenth-Century Novel -- App. II. Symbolism and Music.
Responsibility:	Mack Smith.

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Literary Realism and the Ekphrastic Tradition examines representative texts and the theories of realism upon which they are based. It studies the foundations of these theories in the philosophies of language contemporaneous with them. Beginning with Adamicism, Mack Smith looks at the way humanist, rationalist, empiricist, Kantian, positivist, and poststructuralist theories of language are textually dramatized. He considers the cultural and personal influences that affect historical notions of realism and reality. He also demonstrates the rhetorical basis of realism by considering a mimetic device used by novelists in rendering a faithful version of reality - ekphrasis, the narrative description of a work of art. Smith seeks a middle ground between the extremes of theory and interpretation, discourse and reality, and textualism and history, thus making an important contribution to the revaluation of literary studies.

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