Dickens is realist, isn't it?
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Dickens is realist, isn't it?
stlukesguild: Bayreuth
Alexander III: damned esoteric bastard.
On a different note, should we up the ante and make it not one, but two words, which when combined form an idea or image, which recall the Romantic movement?
Tristan und Isolde :D
What about Lawrence Sterne? Franz Kafka? Hermann Hesse? Italo Calvino? Mikhail Bulgakov? etc... There are many novels... many of the finest that do not fall within the "realist" tradition.
It's in the gate formation of "Realism," but that's mostly because it was the era that came after Romanticism, which was decidedly unrealistic in comparison, with it's fixation on the supernatural. Plus, realism is more a name that came about because of the characters and settings--they were real, often gritty. I still contend the plots of Dickens are often outrageous.Quote:
Originally Posted by kelby_lake
Dickens style is formal realism though, but the pinnacle of the realist tradition in English is Henry James.
Enlightenment
dreams
Coleridge
A savage place! as holy and enchanted
As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted
By woman wailing for her demon-lover!