Philosophical realism

are repelled(578-580). Genji’s desire of the flesh as well as the complexity of dealing with emotions that are rarely shown in works involving heroes reflects on the complexity of chinese literature and aids in seeing it as an art form through the realism that is portrayed. Unlike The Tale of Genji, a much more romanticized type of desire is present in book 10 of Ovid’s Metamorphoses where Orpheus goes after his true love, to hell and back. This sentiment of fighting for true love with passion…

body of Donne’s work contains much more mythological allusion than one remembers at first, yet his best-known pieces have hardly any…Instead of diffuse Italianate word painting, we have in Donne’s mythology the stamp of his special qualities, wit, realism, ratiocination, learning, concentration of felling and expression,…

of classicism to understand Mann’s novella realistically, because the disturbing aspects of obsession and stalking speak out more loudly than the attractiveness of myth or classical allusion. Scholars predominantly discuss classicism as applied to realism, or ambiguity surrounding Mann’s Death in Venice. While scholars aptly maintain tolerance of homosexual love, they…

another in time, and not by any internal logic. Unlike good tragic plots, such episodic plots are not unified by probability and necessity and therefore do not appeal to reason. Aristotle’s focus on probability and necessity suggests that the realism of a mimetic work comes not from its reflection of the external world but from its congruence with the norms of human thought. The…

Society has placed an image into the minds of people of how the role of each gender should be played out. There are two recognized types of gender, a male and a female. The differences between women and men are not solely biological; however, there are many types of gender roles a man or a woman may assume or be placed into by society. Our society’s culture has established a set of unwritten cultural laws of how each gender should act, or, in other words, society has ascribed a stereotype. Men’s…

Both Jane Austen and Charles Dickens possess names that the average teenage American has heard of at some point in their few years of life. Throughout the following text we will explore what each has presented and contributed to their readers. Contrasting things such as sense verses sensibility, and fact verses imagination. In the reading of these different works, it is easy to gain a greater understanding and appreciation for different perspectives and situations. Let us begin with delving…

“From the time I was very young I wanted to draw to understand what I was seeing. I used a pencil to understand things.” This statement from Robert Hannaford concisely encapsulates his approach to art. Throughout his artwork, it is easy to see this approach through his quest to understand the people and environments around him. Robert Hannaford is one of Australia’s most renowned and influential portrait artists. The Art Gallery of South Australia has curated an exhibit of the artist’s…

Street Car Named Desire is 1951 drama film, a modification of Tennessee William’s 1947 play with the same name. It’s a story of Blanche Dubois, who after several courses of social ups and downs, tries to find her sage with her sister and brother-in-law living at a low income apartment building in New Orleans. But ultimately, she fails to build an emotional stability for herself. This script is a perfect sequence of tragedy full of emotions and drama comprised of violence, witty and poetic…

Joseph Minton once said, “True art captures emotions, feelings, and the energy of the object, setting or event that is being depicted. It goes far deeper than the cold, flat surface of duplication. True art has an entity of its own, it is alive, and has the ability to speak, effect, move, and convey emotions to its viewer. This is why I personally choose to paint in derivatives of expressionism.” Art is a form of expression. Art is a way in which society can express themselves and show their…

humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule.?[endnoteRef:1] Satire?s ultimate purpose is to change public opinion about a certain topic. Ambrose Bierce is the perfect example of how satire is employed in literature because of his cynical demeanor and philosophical nature. Bierce?s work as a satirist demonstrates that he was one of the most philosophically charged writers of his time by using satire that provoked his readers to think of changing many blemishes faced by the society of his time. [1:…