... enable us to determine the essential characteristic feature of the new method, the fundamental distinction between it and all other literary movements. The essence of realism was social analysis, the study and depiction of the life of man in society, of social relations, the relationship between the individual and society, and the structure of society itself. Realism took the content ... . All of these features of philosophical realism have analogies to distinctive features of the novel form, analogies which draw attention to the characteristic kind of correspondence between life and lit...

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