Word: realisms
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...Adams House Drama Society's cast. Where Moliere caricatures human folly to make it more obvious and more laughable to his audience (so that they might then recognize it in themselves), the Adams House cast, under the direction of James Ulmer, manages a careful balance between exaggeration and realism that is the perfect medium for Moliere's message...
...This match doesn't discourage my optimism," McConnell said yesterday in discussing his team's defeat, "but it encourages my realism." Or, in other words, on some days, the putts just don't fall...
...thousand ways. So you give the audience a strange brain (a devil-possessor)--lobotomize 'em. Or you carry them to a strange environment (perhaps trash the one you've got and see how they run)--show 'em anything can happen. This insertion of the berserk is perceived as brutal realism...
Wolfe had cooked up an elaborate theory: that the novel rose to success because it was an organ of social realism, and that at its height novelists did real research before writing. But after the Second World War, the novelists dropped the baton and, passing into the ozone of interior landscapes, wrote about nothingness and such. That left the way open for the new journalism, which was a great revival of social realism and had therefore replaced the novel as the dominant literary art form of the modern age. All that was stated; what was implied, of course, was that...
...journalism essay resurface in a less obviously self-serving form, in "The Painted Word." There is the same criticism of post-war art as being relevant only to critical work and to other art, rather than life. There is the same bitterness towards critics, the same yearning for realism...