IT has lately become a fashion to speak of realism, so called, as if it were a recent discovery or invention, like the telephone or the electric light. Realism in literature and art has always existed ...

For over forty years, American Literary Realism has brought readers critical essays on American literature from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The whole panorama of great authors ...

In their debut novels, Rene Denfeld and Stephanie Feldman both use fairy-tale elements to explore trauma and memory. Here they discuss genre, gender and the politics of “realism.” Who defines what is ...

"Explores the challenges of subjective passing narratives written during the height of literary realism. Discusses racial and ethnic differences, assimilation, passing, and identity by comparing ...

Comparative Literature Studies, Vol. 57, No. 4, Special Issue: Technology in Comparative Literature Studies Guest edited by Ning Wang (2020), pp. 655-669 (15 pages ...

In the summer of 1880, on a cafe terrace overlooking the River Seine, Pierre-Auguste Renoir stands before his easel, paintbrush in hand, focusing on 14 live models whose images he intends to render so ...

— Realism in literature can never be on exactly the same footing with realism in pictorial art. The painter must strive to paint merely what the tree suggests to him, because, not being a tree himself ...

As opposed to the sounds associated with European fantasy, Latin American magical realism comes with the influences of Afro-Colombian and Indigenous cultures. Franco used traditional Colombian ...