ENGL120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Metonymy, Structural Linguistics, Backtracking

• School: Macquarie University
• Department: English Literature
• Course: ENGL120
• Professor: all

Document Summary

The borders of fact + fiction: realism in texts. Realism: a critical term referring to a direct and immediate relationship between a text and reality. Realism is an effect that can reflect aspects of the real world, often through references to recognisable aspects of everyday life. Realistic vs realist: realistic: life-like, realist: conforming to conventions for passing something off as real. The narrative creates an impression or a sense of real: does not necessarily imply any external connection to reality, a text can be realistic without being real. Realism as a literary movement: realism has been used to describe a particular literary period (c. 1830-90) and a particular genre (the 19th c novel), such as those by george elio or thomas hardy. These period is often referred to as classic realism", where there is an emphasis on character and motivation, or. Psychological realism": often includes lots of information about setting, appearance and character motivation.