The Creativity that Drives the World: Prophetic Realism
This essay contends that reality is a creative evolutionary process by which the virtual is transformed into the actual and argues that our critical conception of realism in literature needs to be altered to reflect this purposive and progressive living reality in contrast to the static and dead act...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Illinois Press
2019
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Process studies
Year: 2019, Volume: 48, Issue: 2, Pages: 219-238 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Literature
/ Realism
/ Process philosophy
/ Reality
/ Evolution
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| IxTheo Classification: | VA Philosophy |
| Further subjects: | B
REALIST fiction
B Critical Realism B Realism B Creative ability B CATALYSTS B Literary Form |
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| Summary: | This essay contends that reality is a creative evolutionary process by which the virtual is transformed into the actual and argues that our critical conception of realism in literature needs to be altered to reflect this purposive and progressive living reality in contrast to the static and dead actuality assumed by the conventional notion of realism as mimesis. Realist fiction writers who are profound creators have strategically employed metaphysically dipolar and ethically earnest literary genres in tandem with mimetic realism, resulting in complexly interactive alternative and prophetic realisms that function as catalytic agents for progressive change in our world. |
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| ISSN: | 2154-3682 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Process studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5406/processstudies.48.2.0219 |