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  2. Whittington (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Whittington is a children's fantasy novel by Alan Armstrong, published by Random House in 2005 with illustrations by S. D. Schindler. It was a 2006 Newbery Honor Book (Newbery Medal finalist) [1] and an ALA Notable Book for Children. [2]

  3. Literary realism - Wikipedia

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    Literary realism is a literary genre, part of the broader realism in arts, that attempts to represent subject-matter truthfully, avoiding speculative fiction and supernatural elements. It originated with the realist art movement that began with mid- nineteenth-century French literature ( Stendhal ) and Russian literature ( Alexander Pushkin ...

  4. Category:Realist novels - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Realism novelists (1 C) N. Naturalist novels (1 C, ... This page was last edited on 2 April 2018, ...

  5. Effect of reality - Wikipedia

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    In the absence of any signified, Barthes argues, the textual signifiers for "real" objects had for their actual signifieds only the concept of realism itself; further, Barthes suggested that the origins of this textual device came through the development of an "aesthetic finality of language" present in the use of the rhetorical device of ...

  6. Children's literature - Wikipedia

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    The 1960s saw an age of new realism in children's books emerge. Given the atmosphere of social revolution in 1960s America, authors and illustrators began to break previously established taboos in children's literature. Controversial subjects dealing with alcoholism, death, divorce, and child abuse were now being published in stories for children.

  7. The Sentence (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Magical Realism: Publisher: Harper: Publication date. November 2, 2021: ... The Sentence is a 2021 novel by ...

  8. Styles and themes of Jane Austen - Wikipedia

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    In Austen novels, as Page notes, there is a "conspicuous absence of words referring to physical perception, the world of shape and colour and sensuous response". [33] Yet, Austen carefully researched the background of her novels, using almanacs and read books to accurately describe the chronology and geography of her fictional worlds.

  9. Transrealism (literature) - Wikipedia

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    Transrealism is a literary mode that mixes the techniques of incorporating fantastic elements used in science fiction with the techniques of describing immediate perceptions from naturalistic realism. While combining the strengths of the two approaches, it is largely a reaction to their perceived weaknesses.