realist novel
collocation in Englishmeaningsofrealistandnovel
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realist
adjective
uk/ˈrɪə.lɪst/us/ˈriː.ə.lɪst/
science,social sciencespecialized
in science and philosophy, believing that things continue to exist in the world even when no one is there to see them, or relating to ...
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novel
noun[C]
uk/ˈnɒv.əl/us/ˈnɑː.vəl/
a long printed story about imaginary characters ...
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(Definition ofrealistandnovelfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Here the chronicle is the training ground for narration, which is later re-inscribed into the magicalrealistnovel.
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Lyric poetry is nowhere to be found and therealistnovelhas disappeared along with its precondition of bourgeois individualism.
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These three books are all concerned with law and therealistnovel, although they invoke the law in very different ways.
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The magicalrealistnovel, in turn, is interpreted as a claim to an alternative modernity, as that sphere of fiction that best describes a disjunctured reality.
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This is especially true of the potential of the series format to create narratives that connect personal stories to their historical contexts, much as therealistnoveldoes.
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Deronda is arealistnovelthat describes a very big system.
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But it is extremely difficult to do this sort of writing within the structures of the conventional socialrealistnovel.
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She was a pioneer in therealistnovel.
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The story of the socialrealistnovelis schematic and uncomplicated.
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Still, both authors used the form of therealistnovelto probe the machinations of society and the myriad motives of human behavior.
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At the end of a socialistrealistnovelhis efforts find recognition and, if he was a bachelor, he finds a true love.
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Instead of the clear and logical construction of a normal nineteenth-centuryrealistnovel, the novel makes use of surreal devices of metaphor and playful narrative construction.
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Her first book introduced the idea that narrators in nineteenth-century realist novels could use masculine or feminine styles of storytelling, whether the authors were women or men.
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