Sentence examples for fictive realism from inspiring English sources
With a nod to Mark Fisher's idea of capitalist realism, one could speak of fictive realism to describe the widespread belief that the 19th-century novel - or a variant thereof - is fiction's unsurpassable horizon.
As an experiment, agential realism is applied to a fictive case of a collapsing structure, and found to make sense as feminist conceptualization of such an event.
With the dollar at its pinnacle as the world's reserve currency, Colombia's Nobel laureate, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, employed the time bending theme of magical realism in Autumn of the Patriarch to capture the fall of a fictive US-backed dictator in Latin America.
"Realisms" will, as the title implies, deal more directly with the waking world, but the fictive nature of film is never far from the surface.
Fictive people are ghosts.
And because he has shown that postmodern artifice and American realism are not incompatible, but actually feed each other – perhaps his greatest novel, The Counterlife, takes what it needs from postmodern self-consciousness and fictive games, and mounts a moving inquiry into what it means to lead a life.
