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Thinking beyond Modernism : = Peripheral Realism and the Ethics of Truth-Telling.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Thinking beyond Modernism :/
Reminder of title:	Peripheral Realism and the Ethics of Truth-Telling.
Author:	Hwang, Hyeryung.
Description:	1 online resource (177 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-02(E), Section: A.
Subject:	Literature. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9780355319200

Thinking beyond Modernism : = Peripheral Realism and the Ethics of Truth-Telling.
Hwang, Hyeryung.

Thinking beyond Modernism :Peripheral Realism and the Ethics of Truth-Telling. - 1 online resource (177 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-02(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Minnesota, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references

Thinking Beyond Modernism: Peripheral Realism and the Ethics of Truth-Telling explores how various forms of peripheral realism---an aesthetic that is hugely underappreciated not just in the Western academy but also in postcolonial studies---envision a new cultural analysis that allows us to understand and surpass the limits of modernism. First, I probe how modernist taste, with its ahistorical emphasis on aesthetic form and subjectivity, had far-reaching global influence at the expense of what it systematically jettisoned---that is, various realist attempts to reimagine the social value of literature. I analyze the demands of Western modernist aesthetics and its influence in the making of world literature and cinema to show how peripheral forms of art resist the modernist imperative. Second, I discuss recent instances in which realism re-appears as a problem---its status after the affective turn in literary cultural theory, its advent in the peripheral vision of the metropolitan writer J. M. Coetzee's Australian Trilogy, and its emergence as a peculiar from of "neo-realism" in literary and cinematic works from South America and South Korea---to demonstrate how authors reclaim an entirely new type of realism. De-emphasizing modernist delight in the wiles of language and skepticism about representations' correspondence to the real, neo-realists rediscover historical agents' ability to express their subjectivity in literary form without neglecting their own place in history. Finally, in addition to its broad geographical and political remit, the dissertation is, importantly, a study of genre. By investigating how peripheral neo-realists defend truthfulness and achieve a sober realism that understands the ethical dimension of political life as essentially collective, I argue that realism's "fidelity to truth" is not merely an epistemological claim but an ethical attitude toward the world.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780355319200Subjects--Topical Terms:

557269
Literature.
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554714
Electronic books.

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