Our culture is saturated with romantic realism-stories and images that depict a world that is just a little bit better than the one you and I dwell in. One of the primary sources of romantic realism ...

For just a moment, let’s admit that life is hard and doesn’t end well. Of course, we all know that. But we don’t want to know it. We’d rather imagine that, though life can be difficult, if we play our ...

"The essays in this book appeared originally in the New York review of books in slightly different form"--Title page verso. siris_sil_185943 ...

THERE has been a perennial debate as to the merits of Romanticism and Realism as contrasted schools of literature. Both have flourished at different periods, but Realism is now in the saddle. The ...

Translation of L'art romantique. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&uri=full=3100001~!30892~!0#focus ...

Most of us have probably already come to terms with the fact that the Disney princess version of everlasting love – the 'happily ever after' — is a myth. Ditto the existence of soulmates: the idea ...