See also domestic and family novels, fiction, history of children’s literature, short stories ‘Realism’ or ‘social realism’ in children’s books refers to the use of themes and characters close to preoccupations in...

Realism in the visual arts and literature is the depiction of subjects as they appear in everyday life, without embellishment or interpretation. The term is also used to describe works of art which, in revealing a truth, may emphasize the ugly or...

Throughout his elegant and compact sequence of espionage novels set in the Europe of the 1930’s and 40’s—The Foreign Correspondent is the ninth—Alan Furst has been trying to marry romance and dread. This is not something that would have occurred to Eric Ambler who, in...

Throughout his elegant and compact sequence of espionage novels set in the Europe of the 1930’s and 40’s— The Foreign Correspondent is the ninth—Alan Furst has been trying to marry romance and dread. This is not something that would have occurred to Eric Ambler who,...

knew it was a bad decision in 2002 but went along with it out of political fears when they should have displayed "courage"—so let them twist in the wind now. And Monday night (8/14) Matthews used an interview with Seymour Hersh to attack the...

The virtual 3-D world of "Second Life" has always been a place where people could gather and communicate _ but only by silently typing notes to each other. In attempt to add more realism, "Second Life" is about to get a whole lot noisier.Linden Lab,...

In the following essay, Kagan-Kans provides an overview of the development of Russian realism during the period from 1850 to 1880, focusing on the short fiction of Ivan Turgenev, Leo Tolstoy, and Fedor Dostoevsky, among others.

In the following essay, Johnson contends that a shift in Chekhov's narrative perspective during the late period of his career added greater depth and complexity to his short stories.

In the following essay, Becker investigates the works of the Goncourt brothers, highlighting their innovations in the techniques of realism and overall importance to the Realist movement.

Argues that realist writing inevitably establishes a frame of reference of the familiar, but then moves beyond it. Examines a number of literary works to support the assertion.

The American realists of the late 19th century were notably adept at creating deep, memorable characters --whether virtuous or villainous-- who are continuously developed throughout the tales in which they exist. Three such characters that were born of American realism are found in the novels The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain; Daisy Miller, by Henry James; and Sister Carrie, by Theodore Dreiser