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2. Literary realism - Wikipedia

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   Literary realism. 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 ...

3. Eli Siegel - Wikipedia

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   Eli Siegel (August 16, 1902 – November 8, 1978) was a poet, critic, and educator. He founded Aesthetic Realism, a philosophical movement based in New York City.An idea central to Aesthetic Realism—that every person, place or thing in reality has something in common with all other things—was expressed in the title poem of his first volume, Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana: Poems.

4. Isabel Allende - Wikipedia

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   Isabel Angélica Allende Llona (Latin American Spanish: [isaˈβel aˈʝende] ⓘ; born 2 August 1942) is a Chilean-American [6] [7] writer. Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the genre magical realism, is known for novels such as The House of the Spirits (La casa de los espíritus, 1982) and City of the Beasts (La ciudad de las bestias, 2002), which have been commercially ...

5. The Lost Bookshop - Wikipedia

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   The Lost Bookshop is a novel with elements of bibliophilia, magical realism, fantasy, historical fiction, and romance [1] by the Irish author, Evie Woods. [2] The book also tackles serious real-world issues such as alcoholism, domestic violence and societal misogyny. [2] The book was published in 2023 by One More Chapter, an imprint of ...

6. Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto - Wikipedia

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   Realism author William Dean Howells played a large part in getting the story published, as he discovered and encouraged Cahan to write a more serious story about life in the Jewish ghetto. [1] While Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto did not sell well, it would later serve as the basis for Joan Micklin Silver ’s 1975 film Hester Street .

7. Alice Hoffman - Wikipedia

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   Alice Hoffman (born March 16, 1952) is an American novelist and young-adult and children's writer, best known for her 1995 novel Practical Magic, which was adapted for a 1998 film of the same name. Many of her works fall into the genre of magic realism and contain elements of magic, irony, and non-standard romances and relationships.

8. Magical realism - Wikipedia

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   Magical realism. Magic realism, magical realism, or marvelous realism is a style or genre of fiction and art that presents a realistic view of the world while incorporating magical elements, often blurring the lines between speculation and reality. [1] Magical realism is the most commonly used of the three terms and refers to literature in ...

9. Kmart realism - Wikipedia

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   Author Tao Lin described Kmart realism as being "at its “height” maybe in the mid to late-80’s. Frederick Barthelme had 20-30 stories published in the New Yorker, Mary Robison also had many stories in the New Yorker, and Gordon Lish was publishing other people’s books and stories as an editor at Alfred A. Knopf and Esquire around then." [8]