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This essay argues that Ben Lerner's novel 10:04 (2014) employs "implicated realism" to represent the environmentalism of the rich. Implicated realism is a self-reflexive aesthetic that reveals how the foundations of literary realism—narrative description, bourgeois settings, an emphasis on daily life—rely upon the forms of exploitation that have also produced the climate crisis. I demonstrate that implicated realism in 10:04 , paradoxically, consists of both hyperrealism and realist failure. Lerner's novel applies hyperrealist description to seemingly innocuous scenes, uncovering their implication in the uneven distribution of environmental harm. Such hyperrealism exists alongside realist failure, which 10:04 both thematizes and performs. Through realist failure, then, implicated realism confronts the compromised history of realism and its association with possessive individualism and extractive capitalism. Consequently, although many ecocritics discount realism's ability to represent climate change, this essay identifies implicated realism as a self-reflexive and adaptive mode. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article critiques the book "The Lost World" by Arthur Conan Doyle. It highlights the importance of journalism to the telling of the story and Doyle's aspirations for journalism. It focuses on the opposition between romance and realism in literature and argues that romance in literature provides relief from the dull scientism of realism and naturalism. It also outline the story, plot and characters of the book.

The article critiques the book "The Ambassadors," by Henry James and discusses psychoanalytical themes of the novel. The author discusses oedipal imagery as it influences the characters' relationships with the U.S. and Europe. He also comments on James' hermeneutics and literary style. Other topics explored include puritanical repressiveness, realist narrative conventions, and the work's connection to the Hebrew prophet Moses.

The article critiques the woks of the modern realist women authors Dorothy Canfield and Willa Cather, as well as their style and intended audience. The author comments on the highbrow and middlebrow audience and the literary relationship between Canfield and Cather's works. She describes similar scenes and characters, implying that Cather was strongly influenced by Canfield. Other topics explored include the relevance of the writers, hierarchic implications of readership, and engagement with history.

Examines various studies on literary realism. Positions represented by writers on realism; Traditional investigation of realistic American novels in Allen F. Stein's 'After the Vows Were Spoken: Marriage in American Literary Realism'; Exploration of exotic feminist ideology in Naomi Schor's 'Breaking the Chain: Women, Theory, and French Realist Fiction.'

Discusses the contribution of sense of history in the novels of George Eliot. Realism in the works of Eliot; Eliot's revolt against the treatment of history as a chronicle of the deeds of privileged personages; Comparison between the fictional world and the contemporary world of the reader; Incorporation of contemporary era in the openings of all the novels.

Discusses the inadequacy of realism to artistic truth in terms of the original narrative problem posed by Marcel Proust's fiction 'A la Recherche du Temps Perdu.' Origin of spatiotemporal disorder in narration; Absence of realistic documentation in the narration; Importance of art for the narrator.

Focuses on the shift in the nature of works of Dorris Lessing from realistic to nonrealistic techniques in her novel, 'Memoirs of a Survivor.' Shifts between two radically incompatible universes in the novel; Theme of limitation of the consciousness nurtured in the prerevolutionary society; Fusion of two worlds of material reality and imagination into one; Use of sufi metaphors.

Analyzes William Godwin's novel 'Caleb Williams,' as an attack on romance. Dispute over depiction of realism or romanticism in novels; Theme of education through fiction in the novel; Portrayal of flawed characters of Falkland and Williams through miseducation inflicted upon them by authors of romances.

Analyzes the novels of Joyce Carol Oates. Use of realistic narrative in the novels; Repetitive nature of emotions presented by Oates in her characters; Reason for Oates' preoccupation with control; Violence in Oates' fiction; Satire in the novels; Introduction of the basic design used by Oates in 'With Shuddering Fall.'