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Aspects of Realism in Visual and Verbal Representations
Tzu Yu Allison Lin
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2019.01.004
Gaziantep University, Gaziantep, Turkey
In this article, the author reads three literary texts—Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party, and Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence, in order to theorise two aspects of realism in terms of visual and verbal representations. The first aspect of realism would be through physical events and movements. The second one is through the thinking process of a character. The essential point of using realism to read a text is not to see how real the description of a figure or an object is. Rather, as the author would argue, realism is to be understood as the way in which life is true to a character’s condition.
realism, language, visual, representation, narrative
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