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Encyclopedia of Aesthetics
To analyze the multiple meanings of the concept of realism, this entry comprises two essays: Realism and Aesthetics Pictorial Realism
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The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World (2 ed.)
Also known as Political Realism or Realpolitik, Realism remains one of the dominant schools of thought within the field of
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The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing
No author sets out deliberately to write an unlikely story, because every author makes a tacit contract to gain readers'
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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature
Realistic literature seeks to offer an adequate, truthful representation of reality. The term “realism” is used to describe both content
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The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature
As old as Western culture itself, the concept of realism emerges from time to time to rage through the disciplines
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The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art
In American art, realism refers to a range of styles and approaches made in the 19th and the 20th century
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The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature
Though one can speak in general terms of realism in Dante, Boccaccio or Machiavelli, as an identifiable literary
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The Oxford Companion to the High Court of Australia
in legal discourse, usually refers to ‘American legal realism’, but sometimes to the ‘Scandinavian legal realism’ of Axel Hägerström,
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The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages
The most important forms of realism for medieval philosophy are semantic, epistemological, ethical, and ontological.
All medieval philosophers seem to
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The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre (2 ed.)
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The Oxford Companion to the Photograph
The term has complex meanings, partly because of the history of its use in philosophy and art. A strand of
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The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French
[For the use of the term in medieval philosophy, see Nominalists]. Originally a philosophical term opposed to idealism, realism
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The Oxford Companion to Western Art
Although the term ‘realism’ is widely associated with mid-19th-century painting in France, and especially with the work of Courbet,
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World Encyclopedia
Broad term in art history, often interchangeable with naturalism. It is frequently used to define art that tries to
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The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English
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The Oxford Dictionary of Art (3 ed.)
Term used with various meanings in the history and criticism of the arts. In its broadest sense the word is used as vaguely as ...
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The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World
Commonsense reality is more complex than it appears. Although Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1771–1834) coined the English term “realism” in ...
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The Oxford Companion to American Literature (6 ed.)
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms (2 ed.)
A term used generally to refer to art in which subjects from real life are depicted. More specifically, it has been associated with a movement in French painting which lasted from ...
