The New Story-Teller Realism

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I believe the literature piece that spoke importance to me was the article that I covered in class” The New Story-Tellers and The Doom of Realism”. Personally, literature has always seemed a bit difficult for me to grasp but this article helps clear some of that up by showing the reality of realism. One way it does that is by revealing that realism is just an attempt to copy reality by observation. Thayer makes this crystal clear throughout the passage by writing,” …because its own imagination has been dulled, and it has come to suppose that observation and experiment were the only methods by which truth can be discovered.”(Thayer 967). Another way this piece has helped me understand realism is by showing what realism is not. Here Thayer writes,”They

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