Wendy Kurant, Ph.D., teaches Early American Literature, American Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism, and Southern Literature at the University of North Georgia (UNG). Her research interests center on ...

Mario Vargas Llosa, a versatile and influential writer, explored realism and social issues in his vast body of work.

The 1960s literary movement travelled from Spanish and Portuguese to the English-speaking world on the back of acclaimed ...

Ted Bromund, Michael Auslin, and Colin Dueck want to “reclaim American realism,” and spell out what they mean by that in a new article for American Affairs. The idea that realism needs to be ...

Magical Realism: By drawing on American folk tales and Southern Gothic literature, South of Midnight stands apart. Our critic called it “a sorrowful adventure embellished by magical realism ...

Its leading authors, who included Vargas Llosa's Colombian friend and sometime rival Gabriel García Márquez - who pioneered ...

With the death of Peru’s novelist and Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa at the age of 89 in Lima on Sunday, another star from the constellation of ...

Vargas Llosa, who ran for Peru’s presidency in 1990 and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010 ... the Peruvian novelist who combined gritty realism with playful erotica and depictions ...

Mario Vargas Llosa, who has died at the age of 89 in his native Peru, was a towering figure in Latin American literature and ... the kaleidoscopic magical realism style of writing - became ...