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Jan 8, 2018 · From Valdés, Howells repeats a number of crucial elements of realism. He quotes with approval Valdés’ statement that “in nature there is neither great nor small; all is equal” (316). Following Valdés, Howells urges that artists need to learn how to interest the reader “with the ordinary events of life, and with the portrayal of ...
Oct 4, 2018 · Focussing on Cirilo Villaverde’s canonical novel Cecilia Valdés (1882), this article explores the neglected spectral dimension of its realism. I argue that, while explicitly denying the existence of ghosts, Villaverde engages with their false but real appearance as the only way to accurately represent a world marked by the invisibilization ...
- Victor Goldgel Carballo
- 2018
Jan 1, 2016 · ... One example would be that of Cecilia Valdés, who through her work does a critique of slavery and a (Cuban) pro-independence discourse. Yet, she is so ethnographic about it that ends...
Jul 3, 2018 · Focussing on Cirilo Villaverde’s canonical novel Cecilia Valdés (1882), this article explores the neglected spectral dimension of its realism. I argue that, while explicitly denying the existence of ghosts, Villaverde engages with their false but real appearance as the only way to accurately represent a world marked by the invisibilization ...
Is magical realism a Latin American or a universal aesthetic form? And what is the cultural, historical and political relation of magical realism with the discourse of postcolonialism? Scholars are in general agreement about the facts, but often differ on how to interpret them.
May 28, 2011 · Summary. ‘The word realism ’, wrote Champfleury (pen-name of the minor French novelist and art critic Jules-François-Félix Fleury-Husson) in 1857, ‘a transitional term that isn't likely to last more than thirty years, is one of those ambiguous words that lend themselves to all kinds of uses.’.
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Jul 8, 2002 · The question of the nature and plausibility of realism arises with respect to a large number of subject matters, including ethics, aesthetics, causation, modality, science, mathematics, semantics, and the everyday world of macroscopic material objects and their properties.
