WHAT IS LITERARY REALISM? 7 ASPECTS OF REALIST NOVELS!

[@adrienne4028]

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!

[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

Thank you Adrienne. So pleased you found it helpful. Thank you for your support and encouragement.

[@sreejanighosh3399]

Your way of teaching is simply amazing. Four years at university and I finally understand realism through KZbin! Keep doing the good work ❤️

[@Kisstamasdr]

Thank you Tristan! You have opened my mind.

[@TheNutmegStitcher]

Super helpful. Time well spent.

[@mariogarciarodriguez8136]

This was extremely rewarding to watch, thank you!

[@user-ct6lr9lz8i]

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 !

[@katesayori3325]

Definitely, couldn't take my eyes off the screen.

[@alicejones8867]

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!

[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

Thank you Alice, that is really encouraging of you. I truly appreciate your support ❤

[@mtnshelby7059]

I really enjoy your genre discussions. Thank you so much!

[@JessicaRH6]

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]

Just excellent, thank you.

[@grarout1]

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]

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]

Good suggestion, Barbara. I've noted it down.

[@viviandukart7878]

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-tq8hp5xj6k]

Very informative , thank you. 👍🏽

[@markkavanagh7377]

I should be reading right now. 😉 📚 📖

[@KSS709]

Just brilliant 🎉

[@ivanalassandro4511]

I very much appreciate your very accurate videos . I would like to know about literature concernong nature description Thank you

[@yuanjiang4808]

I really enjoy this. Thanks

[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

Thank you 😊

[@JJShurte]

This is a really good video, thanks for the rundown. Are you going to do one for Naturalism?

[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

Good call. I'll look into doing one. Will have to read a few first just to get into the feel of them again.

[@lesserknowngems7736]

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?😅

[@audreyjean430]

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 😃

[@CourtneyReads]

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.

[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

Hey Courtney 👋 Thank you for your kind comments. Crime and Punishment is brilliant. Let me know your thoughts on it.

[@adrienne4028]

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. 👏🏼😀

[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

Thank you eversouch Adrienne for such a lovely comment. It means a lot to me.❤

[@mleslielesliechiplis3648]

enjoyed

[@user-yd8gx4rp5n]

Have you read Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle?

[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

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]

You are one of the best!!! Thank you very much dear Tristan! ❤

[@darenzou]

#6 lack of moral judgement is present throughout literature, but maybe realism literature did it the best

[@jassdad5202]

That was very informative and well done. Thank you

[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

Thanks Roger. Pleased you enjoyed it.

[@darenzou]

don quixote which contributed to realism in literature didn't get a mention

[@elizabethlehman3336]

Thank you. This was very informative.

[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

I'm pleased that you found it useful, Elizabeth.

[@TV-fu1ec]

Very enjoyable. Thank you

[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

Thank you 😊 I'm pleased you enjoyed it. Also thanks for taking the time to comment. It is much appreciated.

[@thatisalll]

ty sm for the video! currently doing a literature assessment :D this is v helpful

[@mariadjebbari1880]

Thank you very much ❤️❤️

[@YoussefTakmachti-kh9mq]

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[@blogginglife7956]

Do mind making 2 vidéos about Modernist and Postmodernist Littérature? Thanks

[@coolpiraterapstar]

I’d like to hear about surrealism

[@barbibleu]

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.

[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

That's precisely it. Beautifully put!

[@myde4804]

Hello Tristan, hope this finds you well. Do you know what books I should use to study literary realism?

[@appsenence9244]

"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]

Would Checkov fit squarely into Realism? How about Raymond Carver or Hemingway?

[@paulinebartle8810]

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?

[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

My pleasure Pauline. So pleased that you enjoy it. Thanks for being so supportive 💓

[@HowVeryNovel]

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!

[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

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.

[@HowVeryNovel]

@@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... 😆

[@lauratorchio1541]

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!

[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

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]

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[@user-ct6lr9lz8i]

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[@billyalarie929]

I want this level of analysis for magical realism. Please :)

[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

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]

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

[@susprime7018]

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.

[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

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.

[@turntablesrockmyworld9315]

For God's sake, Dickens was a realist. Why do people say he was not?

[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

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. 😀❤️👍

[@turntablesrockmyworld9315]

@@tristanandtheclassics6538 I agree, there is moral direction as an ulterior motive by Dickens. He is probably my top 3 if not favorite writers.

[@estebandarne9205]

Science fiction but contemporary

[@m.ouyahya2850]

thank you so much you help me in my work 🤍