Realism in European Literature: Essays in Honour of J. P. Stern

The essays in this collection address fundamental issues of literary realism which have long been given prominence by J. P. Stern, the distinguished writer on German literature and author of the seminal study, On Realism. In the current theoretical climate problems associated with literary realism assume great urgency. Such problems are the notion of literary 'truth to life', the survival of the concept of 'realism' in the light of modern hermeneutical theory, the perspective adopted by the contemporaries of Barthes and inheritors of Nietzsche on the canonical prose writers of the nineteenth century, and the future for an exegetical tradition represented in the work of Erich Auerbach.Boyle, Nicholas is the author of 'Realism in European Literature: Essays in Honour of J. P. Stern', published 1986 under ISBN 9780521254878 and ISBN 0521254876.