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    Readings: Opening Editorial of The Liberator (1831); James Henry Hammond‚ Letter to an English Abolitionist (1845) Looking through the eyes of William Lloyd Garrison an abolitionist and James Henry Hammond a proslave advocate‚ slavery offers contradictory perspectives. Hammond was a strong supporter of slavery‚ because he believed slavery ordained by God. Garrison as the opposing counterpart slammed slavery as an evil nature in a form of human exploitation. He also believed the teaching in the Bible

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    301 Impact of Realism on Literature Although many don’t realize it‚ realism plays a very important role in the literature that we read every day. Roaming from “Peter and the Rabbit” to “Sense and Sensibility”‚ every book relies‚ in some way‚ on realism. Every book portrays the elements that are unique to realism. Realism’s objective is to depict something in it’s actuality‚ and when it is depicted in literature it is often told in a third person objective point of view. Realism tries to separate

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    PRACTISES. Before realism‚ theatre was bound up in melodramas‚ spectacle plays (disasters‚ etc.)‚ comic operas‚ and vaudevilles (acrobats‚ musicians‚ ect.).Realism began in the late 1800s as a trial‚ in hope of making theatre more relevant to life and society. Today‚ many aspects of realism are still present in contemporary theatre practices. For majority of the 20th-century theatre‚ realism has been main stream. Due to a reaction against melodramas (romanticized plays) realism began as an experiment

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    Belicia and Abelard and this family fought against the curse of fuku which was caused by Trujillo. By unconventionally using a writing method of magic realism‚ the author Junot Diaz wrote about a real history of Dominican Republic during Trujillo’s dictatorship period and the lives of Dominican people who live in America nowadays. Magical realism allows Diaz to bring supernatural elements to the story. Even though this novel has many magic elements‚ the core of it is trying to express the Dominican

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    identity in a hostile society” Realism & Naturalism: Novel/Age pg. 6 Pg. 3-4 “One of the major differences…” pg. 8 Last paragraph on pg. 31 “A further consideration…” Types of realism: noir realism‚ psychological realism‚ conscious realism‚ comedic realism‚ romantic realism  look these up “At this point (late 1800’s) realism/naturalism modified romantic realism by emptying it of moral content‚ making the individual choice more ambiguous (as in realism) or more determined (as in naturalism)”

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    ------------------------------------------------- Realism in the arts Main article: Realism (arts) Realism in theatre denotes any movement towards greater fidelity to real life‚ as in Kitchen sink realism‚ an English cultural movement in the 1950s and 1960s that concentrated on contemporary social realism‚ or Poetic realism‚ a film movement in France in the 1930s that used heightened aestheticism. In the visual arts the term denotes any approach that depicts what the eye can see‚ such as in American realism‚ a turn of the 20th century

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    discussing classical realism and structural realism‚ there is always a debate about what distinguishes the two. There are similarities between the two realisms but to really understand each‚ one must understand the differences. Mearsheimer uses a great phrase to differentiate the two realisms. Mearsheimer states‚ “For classical realist‚ power is an end in itself‚ for structural realists‚ power is a means to an end and the ultimate end is survival (Mearsheimer 2013: 78).” Classical Realism as Lebow states

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    Magical Realism What is magical realism and how is it interpreted through the readings of “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings”? “Magical Realism combines elements of both to present a matter-of-fact world in which the extraordinary exists side by side with the mundane realities of everyday life (Latham)”. The author of “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” is Gabriel Garcia Marquez‚ he has written a few other short stories that deal with magical realism. The main topic of choice for magical realism

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    Realism and Naturalism are both responses to Romanticism. Romanticism was mainly dealing with surreal themes‚ while realism obviously does not. Many writers began to switch to realism and naturalism from romanticism because of world events and to make a change. Realism most often refers to the trend towards depictions of contemporary life and society as they were. In the spirit of general Realism‚ Realist authors opted for depictions of everyday and bland activities and experiences‚ instead of

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    Socialist realism is a literary ideology or stream which is strong enough dominating in Western Europe. This ideology has a quite large contribution to the literature world. Realism is essentially concern with historical problem. The most prominent reason in this case is that an object can be investigated‚ analyzed‚ and studied through science‚ and its nature can be found through philosophy. As a stream of ethical‚ realism acknowledges the ethical experienced factors‚ whether it relates to life‚

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