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A literary criticism of the book "First Love" by Ivan Turgenev is presented. It outlines the characters and explores their symbolic significance. It examines the concept of the dominance of European realism and the social imaginary of Russian realism in the story. An overview of the story is also given.

The article examines the rhetoric of author Erich Auerbach's work "Mimesis." It demonstrates three interrelated points that might salvage Auerbach's criticism from its place in the literary critical canon. It shows that Auerbach has constructed a specific method for literary understanding, with the hermeneutics stemming from his preoccupation with figural interpretation. Auerbach's figural hermeneutics, a thoroughly modernist critical point of view, is considered.

A literary criticism is presented of the books "The Pleasures of Exile" by George Lamming and "The Emigrants" and "Voyage in the Dark" by Jean Rhys, in which the author explores the community of readers that center around formal aspects of the books to analyze the ethnographic themes of readership. Topics include Caribbean migration narratives and realism.

This essay focuses on the concept of anamorphosis in realist fiction. It comments on the painting "The Ambassadors" by Hans Holbein and the literature "The Magic Skin" by Balzac, "The Meek One" by Fyodor Dostoevsky, and "The Beast in the Jungle" by Henry James. The ambition and need for social acceptance of the characters in the literature are explored and their relationships with other people in the writing are examined.

Deals with the monist-realist issue in the book "The Story of the Stone." Debate surrounding the definitions and applications of realism; Essence of the book; Paradoxes underlying the book.

Compares the works and views of Henry James and Honor é de Balzac on realistic novels. Arguments based on theories of realism; Similarities and differences of the strategies of James and Balzac on realistic novels; Focus on the characters in the novels of both authors.