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    Defoe’s Adventures of Robinson Crusoe‚ first published in 1719‚ was the only earlier prose fiction to earn similar favour. The change in opinion‚ as well as the last step in the novel’s rise to sovereignty‚ has been attributed to the growing presence of realism as the novel’s defining formal characteristic. Before the eighteenth century‚ prose fiction was a relatively rare phenomenon and aroused controversy about narrative fabrication‚ a largely religious concern quite foreign to readers today. Nonetheless

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    Great Influences The novel Great Expectations‚ by Charles Dickens‚ is a story about a young boy‚ Pip‚ who is shown growing many ways throughout the novel. When the story first begins‚ Pip lives with his eldest sister (he is an orphan) and her husband‚ Joe. They are quite poor and live on the marshes. When he is asked to come play at the large house of Miss Havisham‚ he meets Estella‚ Miss Havisham’s haughty‚ beautiful‚ and cruel daughter‚ whom he falls in love with almost immediately‚ and who is

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    tend to get a bad reputation of being uneducated people who have no rights as citizens. Social status in a large town relates to how well people treat a person and see them as they represent themselves throughout the community. In the book Great Expectations‚ Charles Dickens explains wealth and popularity in the 1800 ’s as a key factor of life. He allows the reader to see how important it is to be in the upper class‚ but he also makes the reader realize that whether being wealthy or poor that certain

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    Realism is a very old philosophy which dates back to as early as ancient Greece. The many interpretations of realist opinion lead to several varieties of realism. “The most common thread of realism is what may be called the principle of thesis of independence. This thesis holds that reality‚ knowledge‚ and value exist independent of the human mind” (Ozmon & Craver‚ 1995‚ 39). The idea behind realism supports an environment in which material items hold an important place in the idea of reality. “For

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    understood plainly as they are closely connected with other actors. Many theories have been used to explain the wide range of international interactions but one theory that has historically held a central position in the study of IR is realism. Realism (or realist theory) is a school of thought that explains International Relations in terms of power as it focuses on the concepts of power and the balance of power. Like what it is said by Morgenthau: “International politics‚ like all politics

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    Realism‚ like the word real‚ can be defined as the belief in reality. A view that there is a form of ultimate truth even. ‘I argue that the most plausible version of realism is the correspondence theory of truth’ (Realism and the correspondence theory of truth‚ preface.) It is being able to comprehend and deal with a certain situation while at the same time accepting it. Realism finds its origins somewhere in the late nineteenth century dating from around 1830-1870. It was introduced in France after

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    International Relations 2: Notes David Wessels 国際関係論2:ノート デヴィッド・ウェッセルズ 2009 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 2 Table of Contents For Further Reading 2E Chapter 1 Introduction 3E Chapter 2 In Search of Theory 4E Chapter 3 Realism 6E Chapter 4 Peacekeeping Operations 8E Chapter 5 Pluralism 10 E Chapter 6 The Idea of Human Rights 12 E Chapter 7 Globalism 14 E Chapter 8 The Movement of People 16 E and International Relations

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    REALISM Realism as a philosophy flourished in the 18th and 19th century and was revived after the Second World War. E.H Carr‚ George Kennan‚ Thompson‚ Schumann and Morgenthau were its leading exponents. Morgenthau is generally recognized as its main proponent. He was the first one to develop a realist model and the central focus of realism‚ according to him was power. His theory was developed in the form of six principles of political realism. Following are those six principles: 1. Politics governed

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    right or wrong‚ it is something that will happen regardless of beliefs. “War” and Do Not Weep‚ Maiden‚ for War is Kind both promote realism in a topic that typically brings controversy. Realism is revealing the true side of something or learning how to accept a situation for what it really is in the least fantasized way. Looking deeper in to the story “War”‚ realism plays a major part in unraveling the plotline. In the beginning of the story‚ it is quite obvious that the passengers can’t seem to

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    Lectures 11 & 12 American Short Stories: From Postmodernism to Dirty Realism John Barth on the short story ‘Less really is More… there are narrative ideas suitable only for a short story: quick tales‚ epiphanies that even a novella would attenuate…. You can hold a short story in your hand‚ like a lyric poem; see it whole; examine the function of individual sentences‚ even individual words‚ as you can’t readily do with Bleak House’. Ihab Hassan: Modernism vs Postmodernism (from

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