anti-realists

He takes on a number of ‘anti-realists’ in the course of the book, culminating in the final chapter, entitled ‘Truth, Convention, Realism’, in which he mounts a direct assault on the theory of Roland Barthes.

Read this Superb Review of How Fiction Works 2009

He takes on a number of ‘anti-realists’ in the course of the book, culminating in the final chapter, entitled ‘Truth, Convention, Realism’, in which he mounts a direct assault on the theory of Roland Barthes.

2009 June 02 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS 2009

It may not provide James Wood with a sampling of the human that meets his high moral standards, but to suggest that the dispute between realists and anti-realists is over who gets to be more "human" seems to me supremely unjust, if not simply absurd.

Realism in Fiction 2008

Unless Wood deplores Flaubert for his "luxury," for his effort to transcend mere documentary description, one now wonders why he finds fault with the anti-realists.

Realism in Fiction 2008

Dixon's fiction illustrates just where the narrative realists and the narrative anti-realists are dancing to the same tune.

Realism in Fiction 2008

Avant-garde anti-realists probably err in assuming that realist novelists are just complacently or venally recycling convention; my experience is that many intelligent novelists are painfully aware of their bated means, their limitations and timidities and uncertainties, and look with writhing admiration at writers like Beckett or Saramago or Bernhard or David Foster Wallace, who seem to have discovered new fictional languages.

Progress Walter Jon Williams 2010

If Wood agrees with James, then we have arrived at his real complaint against the anti-realists: It's not that they fail to recognize the centrality of "realism" (Wood has already defined the term so broadly as to essentially render it meaningless, anyway), it's that they fail to engage in "moral scrutiny."

Realism in Fiction 2008

Worse yet, many of those who are screaming about this are themselves scientific anti-realists because they rule divine intervention out of bounds by default.

All those liars for Jesus 2007

After all, they already admit that ideology is critical to the practice of science and that they are all scientific anti-realists, so the truth of the matter is itself irrelevant.

All those liars for Jesus 2007

He said over and over and over and over and over and over that moral anti-realists must propose an error theory of morality; indeed he stated this months ago when he first presented the dilemma.

Carry-Over Thread 2007