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  2. Aesthetic Realism - Wikipedia

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    Aesthetic Realism is a philosophy founded in 1941 by the American poet and critic Eli Siegel (1902–1978). [1] He defined it as a three-part study: "[T]hese three divisions can be described as: One, Liking the world; Two, The opposites; Three, The meaning of contempt."

  3. Realism (arts) - Wikipedia

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    Realism in the arts is generally the attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding speculative and supernatural elements.

  4. 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 ...

  5. List of writing genres - Wikipedia

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    Fabulation: A class composed mostly of 20th-century novels that are in a style similar to magical realism, and do not fit into the traditional categories of realism. Folklore (folktale) Animal tale; Fable: short story that anthropomorphizes non-humans to illustrate a moral lesson; Fairy tale; Ghost story

  6. A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings - Wikipedia

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    The story has received several critical responses, most of which comment on Marquez's use of the magical realism genre. In an article for the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts , Greer Watson commented that there is little that is considered fantastic about the story, rather that elements such as the old man's wings are presented as an ...

  7. Realism (art movement) - Wikipedia

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    Realism was an artistic movement that emerged in France in the 1840s, around the 1848 Revolution. [1] Realists rejected Romanticism, which had dominated French literature and art since the early 19th century. Realism revolted against the exotic subject matter and the exaggerated emotionalism and drama of the Romantic movement. Instead, it ...

  8. 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 ...

  9. Realism - Wikipedia

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    Legal realism, the view that jurisprudence should emulate the methods of natural science, i.e., rely on empirical evidence Realism (international relations) , the view that world politics is driven by competitive self-interest