... -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 of ... in hand with a pronounced tendency to idealize the hero. This at first sight rather strange contradiction arose from the concept of freedom upheld by realism, which was based on Enlightenment philoso...

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