Advantages: Well written, good story, thought provoking Disadvantages: genre can be offputting to some
...your PC and that is the problem with a lot of literature, the very fact that it is pigeonholed by 'academics' makes it look very unattractive to many readers. In the end these terms can very misleading and just offer a way of grouping together various related themes in novels.
SO WHAT IS MEANT BY REALISM?
In very simple terms realism usually means the novels are representing the world as it is rather than, as it ought to be. Instead of invention ... ...character that tended to populate the 'gothic' and 19th century novels. Early examples of realism in novels include the works of Dickens, Balzac, Flaubert and Zola. The ideas of Neo realism sprang up during and just after WW2 in Italy with a small artistic movement including the filmmakers Roberto Rosellini and Vittorio de Sica and the novelists Primo Levi, Italo Calvino, Beppe Fenoglio and Cesare Pavese. All these authors and filmmakers tried to ...
Mauri 12.12.2003
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