What is it about?
Landscapes of Realism is a two-volume collaborative of literary realism, bringing together leading-edge new criticism on the realist forms that were first articulated in nineteenth-century Europe but have since gone on globally to transform the literary landscape. Tracing the manifold ways in which these forms are developed, discussed and contested across time, space, cultures and media, the volume shows four major domains of realism: psychology, material reality, genres and global outreach,
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Why is it important?
For two hundred years realism in its many transformations in forms, media and language underlines the role of imagination as a key to understand the world of others. It is a key to unlock the cultural reality of the human experience in cultural contexts different from the reader's own.
Perspectives
Working with colleagues from other languages and cultures than my own was an eye-opener. Cultural difference became an embodied reality that widened my view of the world and its differences of values and ways of thinking, not as a set of barriers but as a positive inspiration. This inspiration was translated by the team into the writing of the volume as process of co-writing rather than as a collection of contributions.
Svend Erik Larsen
Aarhus Universitet
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This page is a summary of: Landscapes of Realism, February 2022, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/chlel.xxxiii.
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