Minimalist introduction to a course on realism, reality effects, recording, literature, and technology. Designed as a kind of teaser for "Realism & Recording," an undergraduate elective course taught by Prof. Craig Carey, USM, Fall 2014. Visit the course website at: http://www.craigcarey.net/f14rr
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14. “All novels attempt to cut neural routes
through the brain, to convince us that down
this road the true future of the novel lies. In
healthy times, we cut multiple roads,
allowing for the possibility of a Jean Genet
as surely as a Graham Greene.
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These aren’t particularly healthy times.
A breed of lyrical Realism
has had the freedom
of the highway for
some time now,
with most other
exits blocked.”
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Zadie Smith,
“Two Paths for the Novel”
42. “
Reality is a very subjective affair. I can only define it as a kind of
gradual accumulation of information; and as specialization. If we
take a lily, for instance, or any other kind of natural object, a lily is
more real to a naturalist than it is to an ordinary person. But it is
still more real to a botanist. And yet another stage of reality is
reached with that botanist who is a specialist in lilies. You can get
nearer and nearer, so to speak, to reality; but you never get near
enough because reality is an infinite succession of steps, levels of
perception, false bottoms, and hence unquenchable, unattainable.
You can know more and more about one thing but you can never
know everything about one thing: it’s hopeless. So that we live
surrounded by more or less ghostly objects— that machine, there,
for instance. It’s a complete ghost to me— I don’t understand a
thing about it and, well, it’s a mystery to me, as much of a
mystery as it would be to Lord Byron.
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Vladimir Nabokov
44. • realism is fraught with contradictions
• realism cuts across media
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• realism is not boring
• realism is about mediation
• realism produces reality effects
45. Slide 29: 3D painting of sea
creature by Keng Lye
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Slide 30: Photo-realistic pencil
drawing by Diego Fazio
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Slide 31; Hyper-realistic oil
painting by Robin Eley
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Slide 32: Hyperrealistic painting
by Jason de Graaf
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Slide 33: Pencil illustration
by Franco Clun
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Slide 34: Hyper-realist oil
painting by Pedro Campos
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Slide 35: Acrylic painting by
Jason de Graaf
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Slide 36: Oil painting by
Gregory Thielker
image credits
Marcin Ryczek
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