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4 unusual facts about Literary realism


Dănilă Prepeleac

According to literary historian George Bădărău, "Dănilă Prepeleac" is one of Creangă's writings were the fairy tale context meets "realistic fantasy".

Grass on the Wayside

Although most of his novels reflected his life, this novel really illustrated a different side to Natsume Sōseki because the novel had a sense of realism to it.

Maurice Francis Egan

His novels were romantic and melodramatic, mixing some realism with the romantic conventions of 19th century literature.

The History of the Fairchild Family

During the nineteenth century, The Fairchild Family was renowned for its realistic portrayal of childhood and its humor, but Sherwood's book fell from favor as Britain became increasingly secularized and new fashions in children's literature came to dominate the literary scene, represented by works such as Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland.


Iosif Vulcan

She observes that his writing lacks external stylization, "saccharine images, complaisant rhetoric or gratuitous elegies", instead drawing its essence from authentic, realist folk roots.

Millbank Prison

In Henry James's realist novel The Princess Casamassima (1886) the prison is the "primal scene" of Hyacinth Robinson's life: the visit to his mother, dying in the infirmary, is described in chapter 3.

Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky

Kotsiubynsky's early stories were described as examples of ethnographic realism; in the years to come, with his style of writing becoming more and more sophisticated, he evolved into one of the most talented Ukrainian impressionist and modernist writers.

Nicolae Manolescu

His distinction between "doric", "ionic", and "corinthic" novels originated in the traditional orders of the columns of Ancient Greek temples, and covers the distinction between realistic, psychological first person narratives and contemporary, postmodern novels.

O Cortiço

It is written with the intention of belonging to the Realism movement leaning towards Naturalism, much like Flaubert's Madame Bovary.

Svetolik Ranković

Svetolik Ranković (Serbian Cyrillic: Светолик Ранковић; Moštanica, 7 December 1863-Belgrade 18 March 1899) was a Serbian author most prominent in the period of Realism.


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