ENG215H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Signify, Gender Role
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In-class analysis - two passages on test, you have to choose one. Forefathers of the written genre are those who"ve said the myths, the legends, the parables, the fables, anecdotes and oral stories. Medium of the short story as a genre that could capture and represent reality. In the broadest literary sense, realism is the portrayal of life with fidelity and experience. Has a particular effect on the reader, give the effect of life and the social world that you might really see. The characters might really exist and the events might really happen. The use of terms real and realistic clearly implies their antitheses, like unreal, unrealistic, fantastic, improbable, fanciful, of the dream world. According to the realist, an artist, should concern herself with the here and now, with everyday events, with her own environment and with the movements (political, social etc. ) of her time.
