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	Realism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		Platonic realism is committed to the existence of acausal objects and to the claim that these objects, and facts about them, are independent of anyone's beliefs, linguistic practices, conceptual schemes, and so on (in short to the claim that these objects, and facts about them, are language- and mind-independent).
		What is challenged is the independence dimension of realism, the claim that the objects distinctive of the area exist, or that the properties distinctive of the area are instantiated, independently of anyone's beliefs, linguistic practices, conceptual schemes, and so on.
		The dispute [between realism and its opponents] concerns the notion of truth appropriate for statements of the disputed class; and this means that it is a dispute concerning the kind of meaning which these statements have (1978: 146).
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/realism (11753 words)

	Realism
		Realism, which emphasizes the importance of the ordinarythe ordinary person and the ordinary situation, tends to reject the heroic and the aristocratic and embrace the pedestrian, the comic, and the middle class.
		The antiliterary thrust of realism can be taken either as an assertion of the power of the real over the imagined, and hence of a determined world, or as an assertion of the variety and energy against the enclosing and determining forms of art.
		"Realism [in poetry]." Princeton Enclopedia of Powetry and Poetics.
	www.victorianweb.org /genre/Realism.html (558 words)

	Realism (art and literature) - MSN Encarta
		Realism (art and literature), in art and literature, an attempt to describe human behavior and surroundings or to represent figures and objects exactly as they act or appear in life.
		Attempts at realism have been made periodically throughout history in all the arts; the term is, however, generally restricted to a movement that began in the mid-19th century, in reaction to the highly subjective approach of romanticism.
		The novelist George Eliot introduced realism into English fiction; as she declared in Adam Bede (1859), her purpose was to give a “faithful representation of commonplace things.”Mark Twain and William Dean Howells were the pioneers of realism in the United States.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761552472/Realism_(art_and_literature).html (569 words)

	Realism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Realism is commonly defined as a concern for fact or reality and a rejection of the impractical and visionary.
		As a term of art in philosophy, realism refers to the thesis that general properties, technically known as universals, have a mode of existence or a form of reality that is in a certain sense independent of the things that possess them.
		Realism holds that in pursuit of that security, states will attempt to amass resources, and that relations between states are determined by their relative level of power.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Realism (660 words)

	Realism (arts) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Realism in art and literature is the depiction of subjects as they appear in everyday life, without embellishment or interpretation.
		Realism became prominent as a cultural movement in France as a reaction to the idealism of Romanticism in the middle of the 19th century.
		Realism appears in art as early as 2400 BCE in the city of Lothal in what is now India, and examples can be found throughout the history of art.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Realism_(arts) (587 words)

	Realism in American Literature
		Realism was a movement that encompassed the entire country, or at least the Midwest and South, although many of the writers and critics associated with realism (notably W. Howells) were based in New England.
		In its own time, realism was the subject of controversy; debates over the suitability of realism as a mode of representation led to a critical exchange known as the realism war.
		The realism of James and Twain was critically acclaimed in the twentieth century.
	www.wsu.edu /~campbelld/amlit/realism.htm (1096 words)

	Aesthetic Realism Foundation
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	www.aestheticrealism.org (758 words)

	Realism
		Realism is an approach to art in which subjects are depicted in as straightforward a manner as possible, without idealizing them and without following rules of formal artistic theory.
		But the great Realist era was the middle of the 19th century, as artists became disillusioned with the artifice of the Salons and the influence of the Academies.
		Realism came closest to being an organized movement in France, inspiring artists such as Camille Corot, Jean-Francois Millet and the Barbizon School of landscape painters.
	www.artcyclopedia.com /history/realism.html (182 words)

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