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  2. Representation (arts) - Wikipedia

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    An interpretant is either (1) immediate to a sign, for example a word's usual meaning, a kind of interpretive quality or possibility present in the sign, or (2) dynamic, an actual interpretant, for example a state of agitation, or (3) final or normal, a question's true settlement, which would be reached if thought or inquiry were pushed far ...

  3. List of literary movements - Wikipedia

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    Early-20th-century fiction consisting of literary representations of quotidian thought, without authorial presence [89] Dorothy Richardson, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce: Impressionism: It influenced by the European Impressionist art movement and subsumed into several other categories.

  4. Mimesis gives an account of the way in which everyday life in its seriousness has been represented by many Western writers, from ancient Greek and Roman writers such as Petronius and Tacitus, early Christian writers such as Augustine, Medieval writers such as Chretien de Troyes, Dante, and Boccaccio, Renaissance writers such as Montaigne, Rabelais, Shakespeare and Cervantes, seventeenth ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. History of literature - Wikipedia

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    The history of literature is the historical development of writings in prose or poetry that attempt to provide entertainment or education to the reader, as well as the development of the literary techniques used in the communication of these pieces.

  7. Classical Realism - Wikipedia

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    Classical Realism is characterized by love for the visible world and the great traditions of Western art, including Classicism, Realism and Impressionism.The movement's aesthetic is classical in that it exhibits a preference for order, beauty, harmony and completeness; it is realist because its primary subject matter comes from the representation of nature based on the artist's observation. [5]

  8. Realism (theatre) - Wikipedia

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    Realism was a general movement that began in 19th-century theatre, around the 1870s, and remained present through much of the 20th century. 19th-century realism is closely connected to the development of modern drama, which "is usually said to have begun in the early 1870s" with the "middle-period" work of the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen ...

  9. Presentational and representational acting - Wikipedia

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    Many types of drama in the history of theatre do make use of the presentational 'outside' and its many possible interactions with the representational 'inside'—Shakespeare, Restoration comedy, and Brecht, to name a few significant examples. However, both Stanislavski and Hagen applied their processes of acting towards these types of drama as ...