• Literary realism is a literary genre, part of the broader realism in arts, that attempts to represent subject-matter truthfully, avoiding speculative...
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  • distinguished in that magic realism is closer to literary fiction than to fantasy, which is instead a type of genre fiction. Magical realism is often seen as an...
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  • forms of the arts Arts movements related to realism include: American Realism Classical Realism Literary realism, a movement from the mid 19th to the early...
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  • Hysterical realism is a term coined in 2000 by English critic James Wood to describe what he sees as a literary genre typified by a strong contrast between...
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  • Dirty realism is a term coined by Bill Buford of Granta magazine to define a North American literary movement. Writers in this sub-category of realism are...
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  • Naturalism is a literary movement beginning in the late nineteenth century, similar to literary realism in its rejection of Romanticism, but distinct...
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    various movements invoking realism in the other arts, such as the opera style of verismo, literary realism, theatrical realism and Italian neorealist cinema...
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  • Kmart realism, also termed "low-rent tragedies", is a form of minimalist literature found in American short fiction that became popular in the 1980s....
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  • changes in the visual arts and other aspects of 19th-century culture. Literary realism is the trend, beginning with mid nineteenth-century French literature...
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    of literary realism in American literature. She graduated valedictorian from Washington Female Seminary in Pennsylvania. Her most important literary work...
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  • Susan Sontag: Against Interpretation, On Photography John Updike: Literary realism/modernism and aestheticist critic M. H. Abrams: The Mirror and the...
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  • Soviet Russia and first published in a German literary journal. In it, he defends the "traditional" realism of authors like Thomas Mann in the face of rising...
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    Madame Bovary (category Literary characters introduced in 1856)
    A seminal work of literary realism, the novel is now considered Flaubert's masterpiece, and one of the most influential literary works in history. Charles...
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    and are part of the transition to 19th-century literary realism. Her use of social commentary, realism, wit, and irony have earned her acclaim amongst...
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    and voyages encouraged him to publish short stories, with notions of literary realism. Reymont's first successful and widely praised novel was The Promised...
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    "Frank Norris and Stephen Crane: Conviction and Uncertainty," American Literary Realism, 1870–1910, Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 54–62. McElrath, Joseph R. Jr., and...
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    Stalin. Maxim Gorky, a proponent of literary socialist realism, published a famous article titled "Socialist Realism" in 1933. During the Congress of 1934...
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    leading exponent of literary realism in his country and abroad. According to the literary theorist Kornelije Kvas, "in Flaubert, realism strives for formal...
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  • Literary movements are a way to divide literature into categories of similar philosophical, topical, or aesthetic features, as opposed to divisions by...
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    movement that began to vigorously promote this approach, is called literary realism, which incorporates some works of both fiction and non-fiction. Storytelling...
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    autobiography in two volumes. She generally is considered part of the literary realism movement. Margaretta Wade Campbell was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania...
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  • Domestic realism normally refers to the genre of 19th-century fictional works about the daily lives of ordinary Victorian women. This body of writing...
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  • monologue reflects the need for greater psychological realism. It is debatable when the modernist literary movement began, though some have chosen 1910 as roughly...
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    19th-century French literature (category Literary realism)
    to be felt in the latter half of the century in diverse literary developments, such as "realism", "symbolism", and the so-called fin de siècle "decadent"...
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    American Literary Realism, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 27–33 Shroeder, John (1981). "The Shakespearean Plots of McTeague", American Literary Realism, 1870–1910...
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    The Catcher in the Rye (category Literary realism)
    to be a "literary review", and no major charges were filed. In 2008, the rights of Salinger's works were placed in the JD Salinger Literary Trust where...
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    Holland’s novels was among the earliest examples of the genre that became literary realism. He published a few poems of Emily Dickinson’s in the newspaper that...
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    some extent belonged to the same generation and were influential in Literary realism within Norway during the period 1860–1890. Additionally Bjørnson, Ibsen...
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    Storm was one of the most important authors of 19th-century German Literary realism. He wrote a number of stories, poems and novellas. His two best-known...
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    The play has been canonized as a masterpiece within the genres of literary realism, nineteenth century theatre, and world drama. Ibsen mainly wrote realistic...
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