ISBN:
9780816625215
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0816625212
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0816625204
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9780816686155
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online-Ressource (xiii, 363 p)
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ill
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23 cm
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Serie:
Cultural politics v. 10
Paralleltitel:
Print version Spectacles of Realism : Gender, Body, Genre
DDC:
305.42/01
Schlagwort(e):
Feminism and literature
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Realism
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Feminist theory
;
Feminism and literature
;
Feminist theory
;
Realism
;
Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
Kurzfassung:
Despite rumors of its demise in literary theory and practice, realism persists. Why this is, and how realism is relevant to current interdisciplinary debates in gender studies and cultural studies, are the questions underlying Spectacles of Realism. With particular reference to nineteenth-century French culture, the contributors explore the role realism has played in the social construction of gender and sexuality
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Contents; Preface: Reconfiguring Realism; Introduction: Realism, God's Secret, and the Body; Female Sexuality and the Referent of Enlightenment Realisms; Censoring the Realist Gaze; Realism without a Human Face; In Lieu of a Chapter on Some French Women Realist Novelists; S/Z, Realism, and Compulsory Heterosexuality; Real Fashion: Clothes Unmake the Working Woman; Figura Serpentinata: Visual Seduction and the Colonial Gaze; Flaubert and Realism: Paternity, Authority, and Sexual Difference; The Adulteress's Child; The Body and the Body Politic in the Novels of the Goncourts
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Experimenting on Women: Zola's Theory and Practice of the Experimental NovelTemples of Delight: Consuming Consumption in Emile Zola's Au Bonheur des dames; The Morgue and the Musée Grévin: Understanding the Public Taste for Reality in Fin-de Siècle Paris; Bayadères, Stéréorama, and Vahat-Loukoum: Technological Realism in the Age of Empire; A Question of Reference: Male Sexuality in Phallic Theory; Courbet's L'Origine du monde: The Origin without an Original; Select Critical Bibliography; Contributors; Index
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-352) and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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