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Christian Prigent's books are all fuelled by a drive to grasp a reality that stands firm against the so-called reality of any depiction that claims to reflect it. No matter the genre, this series of books is subjective in terms of the piece, meaning it constantly looks into itself, questions and experiments with forms, tests ideas and hones in on the singularity of feeling. All this against the backdrop of a political story which it always wants to have a hold on so as to better commit to it and commit literature with it. Expressing speech and emotion, text and image and the question of the moral and political responsibility of those who want to produce literature are some of the central themes that this study shall address as it explores the career of a writer who has been writing one of the most prolific pieces of contemporary French literature for almost fifty years. Christian Prigent was awarded the 2018 Poetry Grand Prix from the Académie Française. Les livres de Christian Prigent sont autant de traces d'un effort chaque fois reconduit pour cerner un réel qui résiste à la proclamée réalité de toute représentation qui prétend en rendre compte. Ces livres successifs, et quel que soit le genre qu'ils investissent, montrent ainsi une subjectivité à l'œuvre. C'est-à-dire qui sans cesse se cherche, questionne et expérimente des formes, éprouve des idées, traque au plus près la singularité de la sensation, le tout sur fond d'une histoire politique avec laquelle elle veut toujours être en prise, pour mieux s'y engager, et engager la littérature avec elle. L'articulation du dit et du senti, celle du texte et de l'image, mais aussi la question de la responsabilité morale et politique de qui veut faire œuvre littéraire, sont parmi les thèmes principaux que cette étude se propose d'aborder en tentant de décrire le parcours d'un écrivain qui, depuis bientôt cinquante ans, écrit l'une des œuvres les plus prolifiques de la littérature française contemporaine. Christian Prigent a obtenu en 2018 le Grand Prix de poésie de l'Académie française. Christian Prigent's books are all fuelled by a drive to grasp a reality that stands firm against the so-called reality of any depiction that claims to reflect it. No matter the genre, this series of books is subjective in terms of the piece, meaning it constantly looks into itself, questions and experiments with forms, tests ideas and hones in on the singularity of feeling. All this against the backdrop of a political story which it always wants to have a hold on so as to better commit to it and commit literature with it. Expressing speech and emotion, text and image and the question of the moral and political responsibility of those who want to produce literature are some of the central themes that this study shall address as it explores the career of a writer who has been writing one of the most prolific pieces of contemporary French literature for almost fifty years. Christian.

Reality in literature.

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The Vital Lie is the first book to examine the reality-illusion conflict in modern drama from Ibsen to present-day playwrights. The book questions why vital lies, lies necessary for life itself, are such an obsessive concern for playwrights of the last hundred years. Using the work of fifteen playwrights, Abbott seeks to discover if modern playwrights treat illusions as helpful or necessary to life, or as signals of sicknesses from which human beings need to be cured.

Illusion in literature. --- Reality in literature. --- Drama --- History and criticism. --- Literature --- anno 1800-1999

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No genre manifests the pleasure of reading--and its power to consume and enchant--more than romance. In suspending the category of the novel to rethink the way prose fiction works, Without the Novel demonstrates what literary history looks like from the perspective of such readerly excesses and adventures. Rejecting the assumption that novelistic realism is the most significant tendency in the history of prose fiction, Black asks three intertwined questions: What is fiction without the novel? What is literary history without the novel? What is reading without the novel? In answer, this study draws on the neglected genre of romance to reintegrate eighteenth-century British fiction with its classical and Continental counterparts. Black addresses works of prose fiction that self-consciously experiment with the formal structures and readerly affordances of romance: Heliodorus's Ethiopian Story, Cervantes's Don Quixote, Fielding's Tom Jones, Sterne's Tristram Shandy, and Burney's The Wanderer. Each text presents itself as a secondary, satiric adaptation of anachronistic and alien narratives, but in revising foreign stories each text also relays them. The recursive reading that these works portray and demand makes each a self-reflexive parable of romance itself. Ultimately, Without the Novel writes a wider, weirder history of fiction organized by the recurrences of romance and informed by the pleasures of reading that define the genre.

English fiction --- Reality in literature. --- Adventure stories --- Romance fiction --- Romances --- Fiction --- History and criticism.

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"For decades, the Prague School Structuralism assumption of textual autonomy dominated the explorations of Czech literature as well as the context of Czech literary theory. The three authors of this book combined their efforts to move beyond and offer a new conceptual frame. Sharing the structuralist proposition of texts made from words, they focus on the metamorphoses of the modes of representations through the 20th century fiction and its critical reflections. Switching between theoretical considerations and case study interpretations, their essays challenge the notion of autonomous fictional worlds and involve the pragmatic categories of the constructed image of a writer and the aesthetic experience of a reader. The focus on representational status of literary texts combines here with another conceptual frame - the performative aspect. The literary texts do not function as mere documents that preserve the traces of existing reality but as objects that construct what their readers conceive as parts of existing reality. Instead of a a depository of meanings, literature is thus perceived as a permanent process of negotiations that uses the institutional power of canonisation, ritualisation or tabooisation. Drawing on contemporary international theory of literature and aesthetics (Searle, Rorty, Davidson, Iser, Greenblatt, White), the authors try to conflate semiotic analyses of textual meanings with the pragmatic notions of historical and readership contexts" --

Reality in literature. --- Semiotics and literature. --- Fiction --- Czech fiction --- Literature --- Literature and semiotics --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- Literature History and criticism

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In this study, Alan Paskow first asks why fictional characters, such as Hamlet and Anna Karenina, matter to us and how they emotionally affect us. He then applies these questions to painting, demonstrating that certain paintings beckon us to view their contents as real. As emblematic of the fundamental concerns of our lives, paintings, he argues, are not simply in our heads but in our world. Paskow also situates the phenomenological approach to the experience of painting in relation to contemporary schools of thought, particularly Marxist, feminist, and deconstructionist.

Aesthetics --- Belief, Problem of (Literature) --- Painting --- Phenomenology --- Reality in art --- Reality in literature --- Philosophy, Modern --- Problem of belief (Literature) --- Belief and doubt in literature --- Criticism --- Literature --- Literature and morals --- Religion and literature --- Beautiful, The --- Beauty --- Esthetics --- Taste (Aesthetics) --- Philosophy --- Art --- Proportion --- Symmetry --- Psychology --- Aesthetics. --- Reality in art. --- Reality in literature. --- Phenomenology. --- Philosophy. --- Painting - Philosophy. --- Arts and Humanities --- Radio broadcasting Aesthetics