Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Richard Porton
• IVONE MARGULIES

Titel

Mike Leigh’s Modernist Realism

Ist Teil von

• Rites of Realism, 2003, p.164

Ort / Verlag

Duke University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2003

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• As old aesthetic debates grow moldy, it has become increasingly apparent that polemics both promoting and devaluing the spectral category of “realism” are largely unilluminating. To a certain extent, the polarization between advocates of “critical” and “socialist” realism such as Georg Lukács and champions of modernism, most notably Roland Barthes, was engendered by nowoutmoded cold war tensions. During his long literary career, Lukács gravitated from near slavish obeisance to the Stalinist status quo to a restrained dissidence that led to his imprisonment during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.¹ He never, however, wavered from his belief that the modernism of Kafka,