Realist Fiction as the Rightful Genre of our Time: Realist Fiction after the Postpositivist Intervention

Realist fiction, which had a pivotal place in 19th. Century literature, has lost its central position in the contemporary literary scene as modernism, postmodernism and poststructuralism have raised some serious challenges against it, advocating experimentalism in fiction, instead. Still, in our age...

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Autor principal:	Firouzeh Ameri
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Publicado:	University of Tabriz 2021
Materias:	experience identity postpositivist realism poststructuralism realist fiction reality Philosophy (General) B1-5802
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:b3ef7ae435bf414aa9743c8cf54c659f2021-11-29T06:23:05ZRealist Fiction as the Rightful Genre of our Time: Realist Fiction after the Postpositivist Intervention2251-79602423-441910.22034/jpiut.2021.36379.2435https://doaj.org/article/b3ef7ae435bf414aa9743c8cf54c659f2021-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://philosophy.tabrizu.ac.ir/article_13829_0ce89e2c32833bde421a9ac09334008f.pdfhttps://doaj.org/toc/2251-7960https://doaj.org/toc/2423-4419Realist fiction, which had a pivotal place in 19th. Century literature, has lost its central position in the contemporary literary scene as modernism, postmodernism and poststructuralism have raised some serious challenges against it, advocating experimentalism in fiction, instead. Still, in our age, when globalization and capitalism breed different forms of marginalizations and injustices in societies, it is the realist fiction that better than any other form can depict the struggles and pains of these marginalized lives. Thus, realist fiction deserves to be considered a major genre of our time rather than a second-rater. This paper attempts to investigate into the present state of realist fiction in the literary scene, and it argues that, with the significant theoretical backing from the postpositivist realist critics, it can move toward reclaiming its position in literature today. Postpositivist realists base their defense of realist fiction on the notion that the representation of reality, identity and experience in realist fiction, in spite of being theory-mediated and affected by ideologies and discourses, is possible, as these objects of representation are real and important for being real. The paper maintains that the postpositivist support can favorably affect the present place of realist fiction. Still, the rightful realist fiction of our time, in tune with the developments in the theories of knowledge and fiction, unlike the 19th. century realist fiction, has patches of experimentalism, while keeping its realistic ethos, which further indicates that the contemporary fiction is the fiction of an era affected by postpositivist realist concepts.Firouzeh AmeriUniversity of Tabrizarticleexperienceidentitypostpositivist realismpoststructuralismrealist fictionrealityPhilosophy (General)B1-5802ENFAPhilosophical Investigations, Vol 15, Iss 36, Pp 199-212 (2021)
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description	Realist fiction, which had a pivotal place in 19th. Century literature, has lost its central position in the contemporary literary scene as modernism, postmodernism and poststructuralism have raised some serious challenges against it, advocating experimentalism in fiction, instead. Still, in our age, when globalization and capitalism breed different forms of marginalizations and injustices in societies, it is the realist fiction that better than any other form can depict the struggles and pains of these marginalized lives. Thus, realist fiction deserves to be considered a major genre of our time rather than a second-rater. This paper attempts to investigate into the present state of realist fiction in the literary scene, and it argues that, with the significant theoretical backing from the postpositivist realist critics, it can move toward reclaiming its position in literature today. Postpositivist realists base their defense of realist fiction on the notion that the representation of reality, identity and experience in realist fiction, in spite of being theory-mediated and affected by ideologies and discourses, is possible, as these objects of representation are real and important for being real. The paper maintains that the postpositivist support can favorably affect the present place of realist fiction. Still, the rightful realist fiction of our time, in tune with the developments in the theories of knowledge and fiction, unlike the 19th. century realist fiction, has patches of experimentalism, while keeping its realistic ethos, which further indicates that the contemporary fiction is the fiction of an era affected by postpositivist realist concepts.
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Realist Fiction as the Rightful Genre of our Time: Realist Fiction after the Postpositivist Intervention

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