Sierra M. Senzaki

Bio

Sierra M. Senzaki is a Postdoctoral Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Texas at Austin. Her current book project examines representations of the luminiferous ether, a nineteenth-century physics concept, in modern British fiction.

Contributions

Giving Up the Realist Ghost in The Turn of the Screw

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Realism is a famously tricky term. In literary studies it can denote a genre, an (anti-)aesthetic, a narrative mode, a philosophical literary attitude, or any combination thereof. It can be a cohesive ideal impossible to achieve in modernity (Georg Lukács), a tension between two systems of temporality (Fredric Jameson), or an approach to the novel that is tied to the nineteenth century (Caroline Levine). [1] Among historians of the novel, Ian Watt’s definition of “formal realism” as “the premise...

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