Abstract
The paper examines the presence of realism in fiction and uses Russell Banks' novel "Sweet Hereafter" as an example. The paper defines realism in literature and includes the development of characters.

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"Realism in fiction presents the reader with the unreality of fiction wrapped in an illusion of reality. Characters, plots and settings are plausible, suggesting that they could actually exist in real life. In most cases, realist authors have derived their stories from actual experiences and issues, so the ring of truth permeates them. Realism enables the reader to engage fully in the story because he perceives it as true."

Tags:Realism, fiction, Russell Banks, Sweet Hereafter, grief, loss

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This paper examines different definitions of magical realism in literature and, in particular, compares and contrasts the magic realism aspects of Isabelle Allende's "The House of the Spirits" and Garcia Marquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude." The books are analyzed within the context of plot, setting, characters, style, and narrative structure. It shows how Garcia Marquez takes his themes and his use of devices to explore these themes to such exquisite heights that the comparison between the two books is really an unfair one and how there really is no comparison between the masterpiece of Garcia Marquez, and Allende's rather one-dimensional, poor attempt at magic realism.

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"Bell-Villada (2002) acknowledges that magic realism is not an original construct of Garcia Marquez, that, rather, it came from Kafka (Garcia Marquez continually acknowledges the great impact The Metamorphosis had on his writing), and from Faulkner, and that Garcia Marquez took the ideas from these authors, and built on them to give the world his complex, enchanting magic realist masterpiece. This view, of Bell-Villada (2002), differs from the euro-centric view of Zamora and Faris? (1995) book Magic Realism: Theory, History and Community, by putting Garcia-Marquez's achievement in its rightful place as the masterpiece of magic realist fiction, rather than downplaying this achievement, through analysis, interpretation and presentation of worldwide, magic realist texts (such as those by Toni Morrison, and Rushdie, most of which were written post-One Hundred Years of Solitude)."

Tags:clara, class, myth, legend, passion

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This analysis provides a discussion of psychological realism in literature as illustrated in the works of three authors: 1) Shakespeare's "Macbeth,"; 2) Edgar Allan Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum,"; and 3) Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis."

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"Salizaliha Mustapha notes that psychological realism in literary texts offers the possibility for readers to reconstruct each aspect of information offered in a text through different angles or perspectives. In Shakespeare's "Macbeth", Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" and Edgar Allan Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum", all three authors resort to the use of psychological realism to reinforce their themes and to provide audiences with multiple perspectives or psychological frames of reference with which to understand them and their characters. By using psychological realism, all of..."

Tags:sensory imagery, sounds, hallucinations, reality, perspective, psychological states, fear, imagination, murder, torture, empathy

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In this article, the writer discusses magical realism in literature as demonstrated by the Mexican film 'Like Water for Chocolate', directed by Alfonso Arau and written by Laura Esquivel, who also wrote the novel upon which this film is based and 'The Turn of the Screw' by Henry James. The writer discusses that both of these stories are delivered in realistic styles, but are interspersed with interactions and utilizations of the supernatural in ways that are taken as almost ordinary by at least several of the characters. The writer also discusses that there are many differences in the two narratives, however, and an exploration of the use of magical realism in both James' The Turn of the Screw and Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate reveals that despite the differences in the ways these two works employ that particular style, a clear definition of the term is allowed to emerge.

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"The story the governess tells in her manuscript involves her becoming the sole caretaker of two children, Flora and Miles. She begins to see two figure, a man and woman, that she quickly comes to believe are ghosts. Though she is far from pleased at their appearance--the disturbance they create with her and as she believes with the children make up the action of the novel--she also does not react to them with the horror and shock the one would expect, but rather encounters them as a problem to be dealt with, which is typical of the way characters in magical realism deal with fantastical manifestations. In another type of story, this reaction would simply be the fantasy-action hero's resolve to beat the bad evil spirits. This story, however, is far more realistic, and there is even some question a to whether or not the ghosts are real. The governess convinces herself that the children, Flora and Miles, can see the ghosts and are pretending not to out of some sort of collusion with them against her."

Tags:fantasy, plot, mood, ghosts

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This paper discusses and defines the birth of the genre of realism in the 19th century. It continues to present how realism is reflected in the works of Mary Shelley ("Frankenstein"), Charles Dickens ("Great Expectations"), Jane Austen ("Pride and Prejudice") and Emily Bronte ("Wuthering Heights"). Through these works, the paper illustrates the theme of social change by depicting the everyday lives of people who had been part of 19th century society. Expressing a realist perspective rather than one's subjective sentiments about life.

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"Dickens depicted the dissolution of class divisions through the characters of Pip and Estella, individuals who represented the underprivileged and the elite classes, respectively. In the novel, readers witnessed how Pip's ascent to a higher social class became possible through a secret benefactor, while Estella's higher stature eventually led to her poverty when Miss Havisham died. The once poor Pip eventually attained a better life, while Estella, once rich, became imprisoned in an abusive relationship with Drummle: "I had heard of her as leading a most unhappy life, and as being separated from her husband, who had used her with great cruelty..." In a similar vein, Bronte proved how 19th century was the period where class divisions were no longer stable and class mobility was not only encouraged, but was also possible. Heathcliff and Cathy Earnshaw's lives in Wuthering Heights illustrated the shifts of fortune that befell their lives, where the once rich Earnshaw family found themselves poorer than Heathcliff, who was once an orphan and maltreated servant in the Earnshaw family."

Tags:realist, life, society, literature

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This paper examines two of the most important school in art and literature, that of Romanticism and Realism. The author discusses how although these schools tend to be assigned to certain specific and bounded moments in history, in fact the impulses toward the Romantic and the Realistic run throughout human history and across the cultural landscape.

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"Realism as a style in art and literature attempts to describe human behavior and surroundings or to represent figures and objects exactly as they act or appear in life in an objective and unidealized way. Attempts at realism have been made periodically throughout history in all the arts, however the term is usually applied to a movement that began in the mid-19th century that was a direct reaction to the highly subjective approach of romanticism. Realist artists as a group exhibited a profound sense of social consciousness and a high degree of commitment to addressing the political problems of their times; this was also in contrast to the Romantics who often sought to escape the problems of their day and who felt too alienated to try to intervene in the political process."

Tags:art, history, literature, twain, ibsen, marx, engels, proust, modernism, chagall, chekhov, russian, guy, de, maupassant, howells

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This paper explores Theodore Fontane's famous work of German literature and examines the ways in which Effi's fate is anticipated in the descriptions of the natural landscape. The paper also demonstrates the ways in which these descriptions reinforce a nontraditional realism. It describes aspects of the text that make it fundamentally realist, focusing, in particular, on several scenes from the novel, such as the scene describing the "Slough", and some of the scenes describing the vacation taken after Instetten is promoted.

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"Theodor Fontane's Effi Briest is an example of realism from a time when the genre was falling out of favor. This accounts for some of the elements in the text that are inconsistent with the genre, such as the subtle foreshadowing of events. Key to this foreshadowing are the landscape descriptions, which both anticipate the events of the novel and reflect the characters' psyches. This represents a break from traditional realism."

Tags:bismarck, colonialism, colonialist, duelling, fontane, german, germany, prussia, prussian, realism, theodor

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This paper is a general sketch about how modernism developed after World War I, with strong influence by 19th Century realism and naturalism. There is a description of firstly, the development of realism, and secondly, the development of naturalism, which leads to the beginnings of modernism and its purpose.

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"After World War I, American people and the authors among them were left disillusioned by the effects that war had on their society. America needed a literature that would explain what had happened previously and what was happening to their society. American writers turned to what is now known as modernism. The influence of 19th Century realism and naturalism and their truthful representation of American life and people was evident in post World War I modernism. "

Tags:change, modernism, naturalism, realism, WW1, WWl

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In Victorian literature, realism followed the age of romanticism and realism quickly evolved into naturalism, practiced by many authors of the time, including Jack London, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen and Sinclair Lewis. This paper introduces "Victorian Prose and Poetry" in which the authors Lionel Trilling and Harold Bloom discuss the issues of compromise and realism within Victorian literature. They show that the Victorian authors wrote realistically about life and compromised with just enough romanticism to get people to read and enjoy what they wrote.

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"Compromise is also an important component of Victorian literature. Many Victorian writers, such as Dickens, compromised between Romanticism and Realism, trying to find a balance in their beliefs and how they portrayed them to their audience of readers. Times and culture was changing when these writers wrote, and they had to discover ways to compromise between staid Victorian culture and the modern culture that was rapidly following it. Morals were becoming less strict, and Victorian principles were being replaced with more realistic and modern beliefs. The writers at the end of the Victorian era helped illustrate the changes that were happening, and the compromises that people were making to blend the old and new belief systems."

Tags:Arthur, Christopher, Benson, London, Wordsworth

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This paper discusses Realism in nineteenth century painting as part of a broader movement which began in literature, became associated with painting, and then broadened to include theatre and later, film. In all its forms it was a rejection of the predominantly Classical vocabulary of art, and also of the Romanticism which prevailed in the 1800's. Artists wanted to paint the world as they saw it, which included warts-and-all portraits, and subjects that included peasants working the fields. However, Realist art and politics were inextricably bound up, first in the person of Courbet who founded the Realism movement and later, in the Socialist Realism paintings of Russia.