What do you understand by the term 'literary realism’? Explain with close textual reference to Flaubert's Madame Bovary. Or, Comment on Flaubert’s realism in Madame Bovary with suitable examples from the text.

 

What do you understand by the term 'literary realism’? Explain with close textual reference to Flaubert's Madame Bovary. 

Or, 

Comment on Flaubert’s realism in Madame Bovary with suitable examples from the text.

 

Literary realism is the attempt of literature to represent subject matter truthfully, without artificiality or elaborate artistic conventions and implausible or supernatural elements. According to the twentieth-century scholar Rene Wellek, the aim of realist literature is “the objective representation of social reality.” The realist novel is concerned with contemporary life and everyday commonplace scenes. It focuses on characters in a social setting and delves deep into their psyche. In terms of stylistic technique, the realist novel’s approach to its subject matter is straightforward and detached, almost analytic in its description of characters and events.

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