1. Programmatic Realism in the Nineteenth Century: Europe -- 2. Programmatic Realism in the Nineteenth Century: USA -- 3. Roman Jakobson -- 4. Modernism and the Avant-Garde -- 5. Georg Lukacs -- 6. Erich Auerbach -- 7. Magic Realism in the 1940s and 1950s -- 8. The Marxist Debate in the 1950s and Early 1960s -- 9. Alain Robbe-Grillet, Roland Barthes, and French Structuralism -- 10. In Search of a Definition After Lukacs and Auerbach -- 11. German Reader-Response Criticism -- 12. Deconstruction -- 13. New Directions in Criticism -- 14. New Realisms in North America
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