Realism seems to be everywhere, both as a trending critical term and as a revitalized aesthetic practice. This volume brings together for the first time three a

A comparative study of contemporary realist novels that employ totality as a method and a formal principle to represent the social and economic inequalities of

Subject: The case for realism -- The new painting in America -- Vernacular modernism -- New brutalism and the 'as found' -- New realism and pop art -- Composite

Drawing on a global history of politicized writing, this book explores literature's utility as a mode of activism and aesthetic engagement with the political ch

Anglophone Verse Novels as Gutter Texts draws on the notion of the 'gutter' in graphic narratives – the gap between panels that a reader has to imaginatively f