Realism

"Realism" is the attempt to convince readers that the characters and events depicted in a given work are "like life" as most of us experience it, but, as Dixon's stories and novels demonstrate, story or plot conceived as the orderly -- or even not so orderly -- arrangement of incidents and events for explicitly dramatic purposes need not be present for such an attempt to succeed.

Realism in Fiction 2008

Realism is much appreciated, and will likely help you attract the appropriate level of buyers for your home.

Sell A House With Creative Photo Lighting | Lifehacker Australia 2009

Realism is not a theory, defined without ambiguity, which would permit us to counter certain writers with certain others; it is, on the contrary, a flag under which the enormous majority -- if not all -- of today's novelists enlist.

Experimental Fiction 2010

Realism is idolatry -- believing in God is believing that there is some Force in the Universe (some of us call it God) that makes possible the transformation from "that which is" to "that which could and should be."

Rabbi Michael Lerner: 10 Commandments to Revive Progressives After the November Defeat Rabbi Michael Lerner 2010

Realism is imperative to my nature, and the bourgeois spirit hates realism.

Chapter 45 2010

Realism is idolatry -- believing in God is believing that there is some Force in the Universe (some of us call it God) that makes possible the transformation from "that which is" to "that which could and should be."

Rabbi Michael Lerner: 10 Commandments to Revive Progressives After the November Defeat Rabbi Michael Lerner 2010

Realism is idolatry -- believing in God is believing that there is some Force in the Universe (some of us call it God) that makes possible the transformation from "that which is" to "that which could and should be."

Rabbi Michael Lerner: 10 Commandments to Revive Progressives After the November Defeat Rabbi Michael Lerner 2010

Realism is not a theory, defined without ambiguity, which would permit us to counter certain writers with certain others; it is, on the contrary, a flag under which the enormous majority -- if not all -- of today's novelists enlist.

Translated Texts 2010

Realism is important to me in my writing -- not just in depictions of tradecraft, but also in my descriptions of martial arts and unarmed combat, the layout and feel of Tokyo, and the nature of the political corruption that drives the story forward.

Barry Eisler Answers.... 2010

Magic Realism is considered as a genre unto itself, currently.

Someone in the internets is wrong! matociquala 2008