I'd been in hairier situations than this one. Actually, it's sort of depressing, thinking how many times I'd been in them. But if experience had taught me anything, it was this: No matter how screwed up things are, they can get a whole lot worse.
Jim ButcherTags: realism harry-dresden
Realism can break a writer's heart.
Salman RushdieTags: writing realism magical-realism
The nature of things is, I admit, a sturdy adversary.
Edmund BurkeI wish to confound all these people, to create a work of art of a supernatural realism and of a spiritualist naturalism. I wish to prove... that nothing is explained in the mysteries which surround us.
Joris-Karl HuysmansTags: art mystery supernatural realism
The form of the Gothic novel also implicitly contested the claims of Realism to reflect the world directly by showing how artificial its structure was.
Michael RichardsonSurrealism, then, neither aims to subvert realism, as does the fantastic, nor does it try to transcend it. It looks for different means by which to explore reality itself.
Michael RichardsonTags: reality fantasy surrealism realism fantastic fantastique
The fantastic is in complicity with the realist model, in the claims that realism makes to represent the true face of reality. It points to the gaps and inadequacies of realism, but does not question the legitimacy of its claims to represent reality. The concept of “suspension of disbelief', that beloved criterion of positivist criticism supposedly serving to establish the legitimacy of the fantastic, confirms this hegemony.
Michael RichardsonTags: fantasy realism fantastic fantastique
Maybe we should always assume the worst.
Chuck PalahniukTags: realism
Recycling and speed limits are bullshit. They're like someone who quits smoking on his deathbed.
Chuck PalahniukTags: environmentalism realism
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.
Charlotte BrontëTags: empowerment gender women freedom identity integrity self-determination independence self-awareness character flaws realism image
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