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Realism sets
itself at work to consider
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characters and
events which are apparently
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the most
ordinary and uninteresting, in
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order to extract
from these their full value
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and true
meaning. In short, realism reveals.
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Where we thought
nothing worth of notice,
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it shows
everything to be rife with
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significance.
George Parsons Lathrop, 'The
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Novel and its
Future," Atlantic Monthly 34
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(September 1874):
313‑24.
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