Realism
Coming to prominence with the nineteenth-century novel, literary realism has most often been associated with the insistence that art cannot turn away from the more sordid and harsh aspects of human existence. However, because realism is unavoidably tied up with the gnarly concept of ''reality'' and ''the real'', it has been one of the most widely debated terms in the New Critical Idiom series.
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Coming to prominence with the nineteenth-century novel, literary realism has most often been associated with the insistence that art cannot turn away from the more sordid and harsh aspects of human existence. However, because realism is unavoidably tied up with the gnarly concept of ''reality'' and ''the real'', it has been one of the most widely debated terms in the New Critical Idiom series.
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