In Ezra Pound’s bitter poem “Hugh Selwyn Mauberley,” published in 1920, the poet lashed out at a culture that had disappointed his hopes for a 20th-century Renaissance. Pound saw himself as a martyr, ...

For over forty years, American Literary Realism has brought readers critical essays on American literature from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The whole panorama of great authors ...

Defined by its lack of single-point perspective, trompe l'oeil painting presents an immanent view of reality. The paintings depend upon viewers to construct meaning, thus offering an illustration and ...

IN ART and literature, realism means depicting things as they are, but a fiction writer is not a historian or sociologist and, therefore, realism does not mean that a writer has to write the “detailed ...

Humayun Ahmed, a prominent Bangladeshi author, playwright, and filmmaker, is renowned for his ability to seamlessly blend surrealism and realism in his literary works. His unique approach to ...