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Any review of 20th-century American theatre invariably leads to the term realism. Yet despite the strong tradition of theatrical realism on the American stage, the term is frequently misidentified, and the practices to which it refers are often attacked as monolithically tyrannical, restricting the potential of the American national theatre. This book reconsiders realism on the American stage by addressing the great variety and richness of the plays that form the American theatre canon. By reconsidering the form and revisiting many of the plays that contributed to the realist tradition, the au

Realism in literature. --- American drama --- Neorealism (Literature) --- Magic realism (Literature) --- Mimesis in literature --- History and criticism.

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Realism in literature. --- American fiction --- Neorealism (Literature) --- Magic realism (Literature) --- Mimesis in literature --- History and criticism.

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"Few literary phenomena are as elusive and yet as persistent as realism. While it responds to the perennial impulse to use literature to reflect on experience, it also designates a specific set of literary and artistic practices that emerged in response to Western modernity. Landscapes of Realism is a two-volume collaborative interdisciplinary exploration of this vast territory, bringing together leading-edge new criticism on the realist paradigms that were first articulated in nineteenth-century Europe but have since gone on globally to transform the literary landscape. Tracing the manifold ways in which these paradigms are developed, discussed and contested across time, space, cultures and media, this first volume tackles in its five core essays and twenty-five case studies such questions as why realism emerged when it did, why and how it developed such a transformative dynamic across languages, to what extent realist poetics remain central to art and popular culture after 1900, and how generally to reassess realism from a twenty-first-century comparative perspective"--

Realism in literature. --- Neorealism (Literature) --- Magic realism (Literature) --- Mimesis in literature --- Comparative literature.

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German literature --- anno 1800-1899 --- Realism in literature --- Neorealism (Literature) --- Magic realism (Literature) --- Mimesis in literature --- Realism in literature.

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American literature --- Realism in literature --- History and criticism --- JEX3 --- Neorealism (Literature) --- Magic realism (Literature) --- Mimesis in literature