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5112835 No.5112835[DELETED]  [Reply] [Original]

Since world literature is moving further and further into absolute realism--do you think we will get to the point one day where we begin to dismiss the works of greats like Shakespeare, Milton, Dante, Homer, Chaucer?

Or is realism simply a stage that will come and go?

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5112845

>>5112835
<-Look at this painting...

>> No.5112847

I think the next stage will be a combination of internet-surrealism and physical realism

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5112852

Now look at this one
<-

Can you not see one of them?

>> No.5112854

>>5112835
Dude, what if it's the opposite and the world is moving further and further into romanticism.

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5112855

Only the rational is real OP

>> No.5112923

itll revert back to my did in ur mums ass

>> No.5112924

>>5112835
[citation needed]
I don't think world literature IS moving towards 'realism', OP. The whole postmodernist thing is that 'realism' is pretty much impossible.

>> No.5112972

>>5112855

Yeah, have fun contacting the real.

>> No.5113019

>>5112972

Tell that to my nigga baudrillard

>> No.5113112

>>5113019
he ded son

>> No.5113118

>>5113112

'no'

>> No.5113252

>>5112835
the rise of magical realism seems to contradict this

>> No.5113965

>>5113252
I'd say the opposite, rather pulling fantasy into reality

>> No.5113971

>>5113965

>ulysses

>> No.5113987

>>5113965
putting fantasy into reality makes reality more fantastic and therefore less real
and anyway, people have always believed that their current culture's lit is 'more real' because it conforms to our accepted (and therefore less visible) artistic conventions and reflects our cultural perception of the world. in time both change, and our literature of today will be seen as 'unrealistic'. but it's not 'unrealistic', it just has a different style and a different perspective - and if you think you can eliminate style and perspective alltogether leaving only the 'real' then good luck with that because you'll need it.

>> No.5113993

>>5112835
>dismiss the works of greats like Shakespeare, Milton, Dante, Homer, Chaucer?

People are already doing that in the academia because they're getting sick of "dead white guys".

>> No.5114264

there is always a place for the imagination

>> No.5114280

>>5113993
Read: Idiocracy already happened.

>> No.5114290

>>5113993
You can take seminars on all of those authors at almost any university...