Birke Dorothee, Butter Stella (eds.) Realisms in Contemporary Culture

De Gruyter, 2013. — 241 p. — (Linguae & Litterae). — ISBN 978-3-11-030751-1, e-ISBN 978-3-11-031291-1.'Realism' is a pervasive term in discussions of contemporary developments in literature and film. By drawing on different theories of realism, the authors explore how the term may be used as a helpful concept in order to analyse and evaluate current trends in cultural production and, in turn, how cultural production changes our understanding of what counts as 'realism'. The volume deals with media-specific and national traditions of realism, thereby offering a transdisciplinary engagement with forms and socio-political functions of 'realism' in contemporary culture.Dorothee Birke (Freiburg)/Stella Butter (Mannheim)Pam Morris (Aberdeen)
Making the Case for Metonymic Realism
Georgia Christinidis (Berlin)
Truth Claims in the Contemporary Novel: The Authenticity Effect, Allegory, and Totality
Nick Turner (Manchester)
Realism, Women Writers and the Contemporary British Novel
Gesine Drews-Sylla (Tübingen)
Ousmane Sembène’s Hybrid ‘Truth’ – Social(ist) Realism and Postcolonial Writing Back
Elizabeth Allen (London)
More is Less: Representing the Planet
Reinhard Hennig (Bonn)
Ecocritical Realism: Nature, Culture, and Reality in Icelandic Environmental Literature
Zuzanna Jakubowski (Berlin)
Exhibiting Lost Love: The Relational Realism of Things in
Orhan Pamuk’s The Museum of Innocence and Leanne Shapton’s Important Artifacts
Janine Hauthal (Wuppertal)
Realisms in British Drama since the 0s:
Anthony Neilson’s Realism and Gregory Burke’s Black Watch
Ulrike Garde (Sydney)
Reality and Realism in Contemporary German Theatre Performances
Heike Schäfer (Mannheim)
The Parodic Play with Realist Aesthetics and Authenticity Claims in Cheryl Dunye’s Black Queer Mockumentary The Watermelon Woman
Guido Isekenmeier (Stuttgart)
Visual Event Realism
Appendix
Notes on Contributors