Enjoyable and informative lecture. I have learned so much from your videos and you have helped me read classics on a deeper level. Thank you Tristan!
@tristanandtheclassics65382 жыл бұрын
Thank you Adrienne. So pleased you found it helpful. Thank you for your support and encouragement.
@sreejanighosh33992 жыл бұрын
Your way of teaching is simply amazing. Four years at university and I finally understand realism through KZbin! Keep doing the good work ❤️
@Kisstamasdr Жыл бұрын
Thank you Tristan! You have opened my mind.
@TheNutmegStitcher8 ай бұрын
Super helpful. Time well spent.
@mariogarciarodriguez8136 Жыл бұрын
This was extremely rewarding to watch, thank you!
@user-ct6lr9lz8i Жыл бұрын
well!really thank you for your share! i learned a lot from it. i finally can identify the realism traits! it really help me on the literature reports !
@katesayori33254 ай бұрын
Definitely, couldn't take my eyes off the screen.
@alicejones88672 жыл бұрын
The themes that you discuss are so deep, it would be easy for you to use words that make it seem inaccessible. Fully appreciate that you stick with the simplicity. Please keep it coming!
@tristanandtheclassics65382 жыл бұрын
Thank you Alice, that is really encouraging of you. I truly appreciate your support ❤
@mtnshelby7059 Жыл бұрын
I really enjoy your genre discussions. Thank you so much!
@JessicaRH6 Жыл бұрын
Incredible video! I have spent so long trying to understand realism. This is perfect! Thank you! You may just save my uni degree lol.
@cliffhill3437 Жыл бұрын
Just excellent, thank you.
@grarout1 Жыл бұрын
Excellent lecture on literary realism. Wondered whether you could do something on lyrical realism. Reading Ralf Rothmann’s To Die In Spring and noted a reviewer using this term, and I’ve then struggled to find a single podcast that tackles it. I’ve seen that Zadie Smith apparently doesn’t like it, and I’ve found an academic defence of it! Many thanks, Graeme
@barbaravoss7014 Жыл бұрын
Enjoyable and insightful presentation! How about doing one on realism in 20th c. novels, e.g. In Cold Blood or, more recently, Demon Copperhead or Shuggie Bain?
@tristanandtheclassics6538 Жыл бұрын
Good suggestion, Barbara. I've noted it down.
@viviandukart78785 ай бұрын
I appreciate very much you sharing your knowledge with everybody. Thank you!!😊 Also, I would die to know your opinion on what makes a good author, if you would wish to share it. Thanks again 👍
@user-tq8hp5xj6k6 ай бұрын
Very informative , thank you. 👍🏽
@markkavanagh73774 ай бұрын
I should be reading right now. 😉 📚 📖
@KSS7095 ай бұрын
Just brilliant 🎉
@ivanalassandro45115 ай бұрын
I very much appreciate your very accurate videos . I would like to know about literature concernong nature description Thank you
@yuanjiang48082 жыл бұрын
I really enjoy this. Thanks
@tristanandtheclassics65382 жыл бұрын
Thank you 😊
@JJShurte Жыл бұрын
This is a really good video, thanks for the rundown. Are you going to do one for Naturalism?
@tristanandtheclassics6538 Жыл бұрын
Good call. I'll look into doing one. Will have to read a few first just to get into the feel of them again.
@lesserknowngems773610 ай бұрын
Thank you so much for this video. I'm interested in hearing your thoughts on a thing. You talk about how realist literature doesn't do similies etc. Is it the same for symbolism? I've read Salka Valka by Laxness, and he is a known realist. Salka Valka the book also fits quite perfectly into you seven definitions. But, when I read the book and Salka Valkas connection to the community, and the oand and especially the salt fish, I got a feeling she became a sort of "motherland" character. Salka Valka "IS" Iceland. Am I reading something into nothing?😅
@audreyjean4308 ай бұрын
Thank you for all your work and sharings it's very fascinating! If anyone knows more KZbin channels like this about books or instruction topics, please share the names 😃
@CourtneyReads2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this, Tristan! I really liked hearing this break down and your examples, it has given me a lot to think about and I always like that. Also, I'm going to have to check out your Crime and Punishment video. I'm hoping to reread that one soon and think your video would give me some good insight for the reread.
@tristanandtheclassics65382 жыл бұрын
Hey Courtney 👋 Thank you for your kind comments. Crime and Punishment is brilliant. Let me know your thoughts on it.
@adrienne40282 жыл бұрын
I enjoyed this informative lecture. Your videos have helped me read classical literature with a deeper understanding of its various elements. Thank you for making my reading experiences all the more enjoyable. 👏🏼😀
@tristanandtheclassics65382 жыл бұрын
Thank you eversouch Adrienne for such a lovely comment. It means a lot to me.❤
@mleslielesliechiplis36485 ай бұрын
enjoyed
@user-yd8gx4rp5n Жыл бұрын
Have you read Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle?
@tristanandtheclassics6538 Жыл бұрын
No but I've heard it's superb. Thanks for ghe reminder. I don't own it so will have to search for a copy.
@maryforster1417 Жыл бұрын
You are one of the best!!! Thank you very much dear Tristan! ❤
@darenzou Жыл бұрын
#6 lack of moral judgement is present throughout literature, but maybe realism literature did it the best
@jassdad52022 жыл бұрын
That was very informative and well done. Thank you
@tristanandtheclassics65382 жыл бұрын
Thanks Roger. Pleased you enjoyed it.
@darenzou Жыл бұрын
don quixote which contributed to realism in literature didn't get a mention
@elizabethlehman3336 Жыл бұрын
Thank you. This was very informative.
@tristanandtheclassics6538 Жыл бұрын
I'm pleased that you found it useful, Elizabeth.
@TV-fu1ec2 жыл бұрын
Very enjoyable. Thank you
@tristanandtheclassics65382 жыл бұрын
Thank you 😊 I'm pleased you enjoyed it. Also thanks for taking the time to comment. It is much appreciated.
@thatisalll2 жыл бұрын
ty sm for the video! currently doing a literature assessment :D this is v helpful
@mariadjebbari1880 Жыл бұрын
Thank you very much ❤️❤️
@YoussefTakmachti-kh9mq Жыл бұрын
🎉
@blogginglife7956 Жыл бұрын
Do mind making 2 vidéos about Modernist and Postmodernist Littérature? Thanks
@coolpiraterapstar Жыл бұрын
I’d like to hear about surrealism
@barbibleu2 жыл бұрын
I think the reason why we don’t see a radical change of society in realist literature is that it wouldn’t be recognizable to the readers, and the work would no longer appear realist. It would somehow defeat the purpose of the genre.
@tristanandtheclassics65382 жыл бұрын
That's precisely it. Beautifully put!
@myde48049 ай бұрын
Hello Tristan, hope this finds you well. Do you know what books I should use to study literary realism?
@appsenence9244 Жыл бұрын
"not a spoiler" then proceeds to spoil the rest of the book. Hhaah just joking, Thanks for an awesome video. Found this hidden gem channel just today.
@BigPhilly15 Жыл бұрын
Would Checkov fit squarely into Realism? How about Raymond Carver or Hemingway?
@paulinebartle88102 жыл бұрын
Thank you, Tristan. I'm very much enjoying watching your in depth look at literature. It is helping me to get far more out of my reading of classic books. Also enjoying your series on definitions of genres. One question though. Can a book fall under more than one genre?
@tristanandtheclassics65382 жыл бұрын
My pleasure Pauline. So pleased that you enjoy it. Thanks for being so supportive 💓
@HowVeryNovel2 жыл бұрын
I've really enjoyed watching your breakdowns on aspects of literature, I always come away having learnt so much. I neither enjoy writing nor reading realism, not 'true' realism anyway - I like Austen, Dickens etc., and I loved Vanity Fair, which I never considered to be realism but after listening to this, it seems to fall under a lot of these characteristics, so maybe I do like realism. Literary identity crisis for me here...! haha!
@tristanandtheclassics65382 жыл бұрын
Thank you Abigail. The feeling is mutual. Your channel is spectacular. I know what you mean about 'true realism. It can be hard going. That's especially the case with stern, sociological realism and Naturalism. As for Vanity Fair, I don't wish to disturb you too much, but it's considered quite widely as Realist literature. Having said that, Realism in literature is particularly broad in scope, depending on how one applies the criteria.
@HowVeryNovel2 жыл бұрын
@@tristanandtheclassics6538 Ah, thank you so much! It's funny isn't it, most of my favourite books probably are works of realism in some way, but I think the narration styles add a layer of satire or tragedy (or just general drama) that makes it appear to sparkle a little more than just plain 'real life'. Fascinating really. I'm not very clued-up on - what I suppose we might call - the more technical aspects of literature, but I am very much enjoying learning about it all! And now you have me wondering if I also - God forbid - write realism... 😆
@lauratorchio15412 жыл бұрын
Hallo Tristan! We missed your interesting videos. I have a question for you: have you read War and peace by Leo Tolstoj? Did you enjoy it? Thanks. Have a nice day!
@tristanandtheclassics65382 жыл бұрын
Hello Laura. Thanks for the question. I took on War and Peace when I was about 17. Unfortunately i never finished it as it became to labyrinthine with so many characters. I will be reading it this year though hopefully 🙏
@YoussefTakmachti-kh9mq Жыл бұрын
@@tristanandtheclassics6538 ❤❤❤❤❤ 😅😊
@user-ct6lr9lz8i Жыл бұрын
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@billyalarie929 Жыл бұрын
I want this level of analysis for magical realism. Please :)
@tristanandtheclassics6538 Жыл бұрын
I will try and work on that. I will have to go back through a few works before I do. It's been a while since I have read much Magical Realism.
@xaviercrain7336 Жыл бұрын
A lot of the problematic you constantly come across with Dickens-or at least the problematic you are realizing that the super category of realism is-can be solved by calling Dickens a social realist or his writing to be social realism. Also not being able to use metaphor is neither an elimination of color or of comparison that has ideology. Any sentence using an is uses ontological metaphor. So is being an equal sign is as deconstruction would say bears on questioning the arbitrariness of the sign and the problem with equalization across the logos
@susprime70182 жыл бұрын
Love the Gaskell and the Turgenev. Half way through the Memoirs of Bras Cubas, is that magical realism and realism? I have Resurrection by Tolstoy in the stack, will that be realism? Bleak House is great. Enjoyed the Freudian slip on the Creator, thank you. I really got into Crime and Punishing the second time I read it, not for school, could not put it down, stayed up very late to finish it. Dystopian and science fiction, last ones I read were The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick and City of Endless Night by Milo Hastings.
@tristanandtheclassics65382 жыл бұрын
Memoirs of Bras Cubas is realism, though I wouldn't personally go as far as magical realism as, although he is a dead narrator, the world of the novel is ours. Tolstoy is realist too. Though I haven't read Resurrection, I would be pretty confident that it I'd realist. The Russian novelists of the 19th century were outstanding in this genre. Crime and Punishment is just ridiculously good.
@turntablesrockmyworld93159 ай бұрын
For God's sake, Dickens was a realist. Why do people say he was not?
@tristanandtheclassics65389 ай бұрын
I know what you mean. He certainly popularised the focus on the menial, low-class, and unpleasant aspects of society. I think, though, that it is because his casts are predominantly humours; he wilfully uses the sentimental; and passages of his books are overtly didactic. Not to say that any of that is negative, and he is perhaps still my favourite writer. I hope that explains my meaning more clearly. 😀❤️👍
@turntablesrockmyworld93159 ай бұрын
@@tristanandtheclassics6538 I agree, there is moral direction as an ulterior motive by Dickens. He is probably my top 3 if not favorite writers.