Realism can be broadly defined as "the faithful representation of reality." Realism refers to attempting to represent the subject matter truthfully, without artificiality and speculative fiction or supernatural elements. Realism is a movement in art history that originated in France after the French Revolution of 1848. Realism was motivated by a renewed interest in ordinary people and the emergence of leftist politics.
Realism is a way for individuals to discover the truth through their senses. It has roots in Descartes and Locke and was formulated for the first time in the eighteenth century by Thomas Reid. The rigidities, conventions, and other constraints of "bourgeois realism" inspired the revolt, later known as modernism. It includes artists like Gustave Courbet capitalizing on the mundane, ugly, or sordid. Anton Chekov used camera works to reproduce an uninflected slice of life, exposing realistic theatricality's rhetorical and persuasive qualities. Henry James and William Dean Howells served as the spokesmen for realism and articulated its aesthetic principles. Realist painters rejected Romanticism. The paintings presented a "slice of life" detached from all moral, emotional, and aesthetic considerations.
There are two ways literary critics apply the concept of realism:
During the nineteenth century, a literary movement included Honoré de Balzac in France, George Eliot in England, and William Dean Howells in America.
There is a recurrent mode of representing life and experience in literature in various eras and literary forms.
Realist Authors Include:
Thackeray,
Dickens,
Anthony Trollope,
George Eliot,
Thomas Hardy
Their work addressed political, social, and religious concerns relevant to 19th-century England. Literary realism presents the subject matter truthfully without speculative or supernatural elements. It is a literary genre within the broader realism in the art movement. In the mid-19th century, realist art movements began with French literature (Stendhal) and Russian literature (Alexander Pushkin). Literary realism attempts to represent familiar things as they are. Realist authors chose to depict everyday and banal activities and experiences.
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