This chapter explores the poetics of the draft in the transgeneric field of modern small prose forms from the aphoristic “fragments” of the Romantic period, through the prose sketches and prose poems of the nineteenth century, to microfiction (flash fiction), emblematic short prose, literary… read more
This chapter suggests avenues for a critical remapping and rereading of the supposedly well-known core phase of literary realism in the mid- to late nineteenth century, from the 1840s to the early 1900s, with timelines depending on language area. Building on “Routes into Realism,” this core… read more
This chapter reassesses and remaps the emergence of realist poetics and style in English, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish literature in the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, i.e., mostly before the French and German theories and critical debates about realism of the… read more
This Introduction serves a fourfold function: to outline the premises and principles governing the project as a whole, to survey recent developments that characterize scholarship in the field, to delineate the innovative collaborative methodology governing the undertaking, and to provide a… read more
