For over forty years, American Literary Realism has brought readers critical essays on American literature from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The whole panorama of great authors ...

IN ART and literature, realism means depicting things as they are, but a fiction writer is not a historian or sociologist and, therefore, realism does not mean that a writer has to write the “detailed ...

"Explores the challenges of subjective passing narratives written during the height of literary realism. Discusses racial and ethnic differences, assimilation, passing, and identity by comparing ...

In Ezra Pound’s bitter poem “Hugh Selwyn Mauberley,” published in 1920, the poet lashed out at a culture that had disappointed his hopes for a 20th-century Renaissance. Pound saw himself as a martyr, ...

Fakir Mohan Senapati's literary device of using satire served a dual purpose. It was a strategy that made possible a veiled criticism of the colonial state and the norms it imposed but was also an ...

Humayun Ahmed, a prominent Bangladeshi author, playwright, and filmmaker, is renowned for his ability to seamlessly blend surrealism and realism in his literary works. His unique approach to ...

MAGIC and realism car­ry two apparently contradicting connotations. But a literary technique that caught the fancy of readers and critics alike in the third and fourth decades of the 20th century was ...