... to describe life without idealization or romantic subjectivity. It is most often associated with the literary movement arising in France during the nineteenth century; primarily, it is a reaction against Romanticism's idealism ad subjectivity. The French writer Gustave Flaubert and Leo Tolstoy from Russia are examples of Realist writers. Realists wanted a true representation in literature of reality of ... free indirect style. Though Flaubert is attributed for creating free indirect discourse, many other Realists began to use the technique in their writings. According to the Concise Oxfor...

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