1. Realism in the fiction in the novel
... that literature can be properly understood only within the larger framework of the society that has shaped it. He therefore applies to it the reflection model, which assumes that the text is a direct reflection of a social reality, and which is particularly apt to the realist novel with its self-proclaimed mimetic intent. Realism is an aesthetic mode which broke with the ... gives us access to a character's thoughts, feelings and motivations, for example, is a highly formalized convention that produces a sense of psychological depth; the characters seem to have "lives" independent of th...
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