Name: Tragic Realism and Modern Society
ISBN: 978-1-349-19787-3

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John Orr
1. University of Edinburgh, UK
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Table of contents (15 chapters)

Front Matter

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Part I
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 1-1
  
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2. Introduction: The Adventures of the Real
  
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  Pages 3-10
3. Lukács, Williams, Auerbach: Tragedy and Mimesis
  
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  Pages 11-23
4. Repudiations of Realism I: Critical Theory
  
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  Pages 24-32
5. Repudiations of Realism II: Formalism and Genetic Structuralism
  
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  Pages 33-48
6. Tragic Realism: The Passionate Political
  
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  Pages 49-65
Part II
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 67-67
  
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2. Tolstoy and Dostoevsky: Passion and Russian Society
  
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  Pages 69-88
3. Dostoevsky: The Demonic Tendenz
  
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  Pages 89-102
4. Zola: Germinal and Tragic Praxis
  
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  Pages 103-114
5. Conrad: The New Meaning of Tragic Irony
  
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  Pages 115-130
6. Thomas Mann: Bourgeois Affirmation and Artistic Tragedy
  
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  Pages 131-148
7. The Severed Continuum: Soviet Realism and the Case of The Silent Don
  
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  Pages 149-158
8. Malraux and Hemingway: The Myth of Tragic Humanism
  
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  Pages 159-175
9. George Orwell:The Nightmare of the Real
  
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  Pages 176-187
10. Solzhenitsyn: The Permanence of Tragedy
  
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  Pages 188-203
11. Conclusion: Tragic Realism and Modern Society
  
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  Pages 204-210
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A critical study which discusses passion and community as the central structures of feeling in tragic realism, tracing their origins in Stendhal, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky and explaining their contemporary eclipse in Western society.

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University of Edinburgh, UK

John Orr

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Book Title: Tragic Realism and Modern Society
Book Subtitle: The Passionate Political in the Modern Novel
Authors: John Orr
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19787-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-19787-3Published: 25 February 1989
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: X, 225
Topics: Nineteenth-Century Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Cultural Studies

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

Front Matter

Part I

Front Matter

Introduction: The Adventures of the Real

Lukács, Williams, Auerbach: Tragedy and Mimesis

Repudiations of Realism I: Critical Theory

Repudiations of Realism II: Formalism and Genetic Structuralism

Tragic Realism: The Passionate Political

Part II

Front Matter

Tolstoy and Dostoevsky: Passion and Russian Society

Dostoevsky: The Demonic Tendenz

Zola: Germinal and Tragic Praxis

Conrad: The New Meaning of Tragic Irony

Thomas Mann: Bourgeois Affirmation and Artistic Tragedy

The Severed Continuum: Soviet Realism and the Case of The Silent Don

Malraux and Hemingway: The Myth of Tragic Humanism

George Orwell:The Nightmare of the Real

Solzhenitsyn: The Permanence of Tragedy

Conclusion: Tragic Realism and Modern Society

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University of Edinburgh, UK

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