…the attitude or practice of accepting a situation as it is and being prepared to deal with it accordingly…
…a literary or artistic genre in which realistic narrative and naturalistic technique are combined with surreal elements of dream or fantasy…
…the realistic depiction in art of contemporary life, as a means of social or political comment…
…realistic fiction that is characterized by overblown prose and intellectual digressions…
…the theory of art, literature, and music officially sanctioned by the state in some communist countries (especially in the Soviet Union under Stalin), by which artistic work was supposed to reflect and promote the ideals of a socialist society…
…a movement or school in art or philosophy representing a modified form of realism…
…detailed and unidealized representation in art, especially of banal, mundane, or sordid aspects of life…
…a literary or artistic genre in which realistic narrative and naturalistic technique are combined with surreal elements of dream or fantasy…
…the doctrine that universals or abstract concepts have an objective or absolute existence. The theory that universals have their own reality is sometimes called Platonic realism because it was first outlined by Plato’s doctrine of “forms” or ideas…
