The Cutting Edge between Nationalistic Commitment ( Iltizam ) and Literary Compulsion ( Ilzam ) in Palestinian Literature by Dima M. T. Tahboub

“…This paper presents war literature as a distinctive genre intertwined with various schools of social thought and literary criticism including nationalism, social realism, and commitment. It puts forward a definition of war literature and the history of its emergence. …”
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El caminant de la terra: els primers llibres de viatge de Josep M. Espinàs by Carme Gregori

“…Espinás’ first two books, «Viatge al Pirineu de Lleida» («Journey to the Pyrenees of Lleida», 1957) i «Viatge al Priorat» («Journey to the Priorat», 1962), are placed within this reference frame: the former is in the line opened up by Cela with his «Viaje a la Alcarria» («Journey to the Alcarria»), and the latter is closer to the interest for social and economic realism as defended by Social Realism, although without its charactersitc critical intentionality.…”
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A Contrastive Analysis of English Novel Memories of My Melancholy Whores and Its Urdu Translation from the Perspective of Rewriting Theory by Abd Ul Waheed

“…The study, anchored in rewriting theory, introduces a fresh approach to understanding contemporary social realism and the translation of romantic novels. …”
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PANDANGAN DUNIA DALAM NASKAH DRAMA HĀRŪT WA MĀRŪT KARYA ALĪ ACHMAD BĀKATSĪR by Rahmat Hidayat

“…World view obtained after the research is social realism.…”
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Disordering the coalition government's 'new' approach to curriculum design and knowledge: the matter of the discipline by Firth, R

“…Disciplinarity is approached by drawing attention to an increasingly influential school of thought, social realism, as well as the notion of a new disciplinarity in higher education, both of which see disciplinary knowledge as a social phenomenon. …”

Experiencing the Digital News: The multiple dimensions of users’ experience in news media use by Omar, Bahiyah, Mustafa, Hasrina

“…Four dimensions were extracted from the analysis: para-social interaction, transportation, absorption and social realism. The study found that online news users were experiencing beyond ordinary description; they interacted with the news, absorbed in the narrative world, and to certain extent felt that they were being transported into such world and also experienced the realism that the news stories tend to convey. …”
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« Reality is out there » : le néo-réalisme fantastique dans quelques épisodes de The X-Files by Emmanuelle Delanoë-Brun

“…Leaving aside the philosophico-political foundations that clearly underlie the main plot, this article considers how, in certain episodes, the alienating archi-structure of postmodern society fades and the series explores much more immediate political and social issues, such as illegal immigration, communitarianism, foreign relations, work rhythms, social exploitation, re-establishing its link with the tradition of “social realism” of the great stories popular fiction in the 19th century, from which we can consider that television series, following cinema, continue to draw their source.…”
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Cinematic Views on Critical Representations of the Economic Policies of the Democrat Party Era: Social Realist Film Initiatives in Turkish Cinema by Betül Sarı Aksakal

“…This environment was also reflected in the cinema, paving the way for the birth of a movement called Social Realism in Turkish Cinema. It is thought that the Social Realist Movement (1960-1965) and some of the films shot under the influence of this movement mirror the economic policies implemented during the Democrat Party era and the adverse developments it brought with it. …”
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Analysing the Intersection of Marxist and Postcolonial Paradigms in Selected Pakistani English Fiction by Asim Karim

“…In doing so, this paper explicates social realism in Pakistani fiction from a broad range of Marxist and post-Marxist theoretical perspectives, thereby highlighting class variations in Pakistani fiction. …”
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Powerful Knowledge and the 2017 Swedish National Test in Religious Education by Klas Andersson, Mattias Börjesson, Kristoffer Larsson

“…In the 21st century, there has been a recurring discussion about social realism in educational research: the idea that subject knowledge derived from academic disciplines should constitute the heart of the school curriculum. …”
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Knowing and the Known: A Philosophical and Pedagogical Critique on the Concept of ‘Powerful Knowledge’ by Siebren Miedema

“…It is, in his view, theoretically and conceptually confusing when authors who work along the lines of these paradigms are trying to complement these with the concept of ‘powerful knowledge’ along the lines of social realism as outlined by Young and Muller. Let us stick to knowing and the known as a theoretical conceptualization of ‘knowledge’.…”
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The 'Bollywoodization' of Popular Indian Visual Culture: A Critical Perspective by Keval Joseph Kumar

“…The history of Indian cinema is replete with films made in other genres and styles (e.g. social realism, satires, comedies, fantasy, horror, stunt) in the numerous languages of the country; however, it’s the popular Hindi cinema (now generally termed ‘Bollywood’) that has dominated national Indian cinema and its audiovisual culture and hegemonized the entire film industry as well as other popular technology-based art forms including the press, radio, television,  music, advertising, the worldwide web,  the social media, and telecommunications media. …”
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Vanguardias: del Creacionismo al Realismo Popular Constructivo by José Alberto de la Fuente

“…Namely: aesthetic and politics appearing in poetry and novel of the proletarian social realism. Vicente Huidobro's Manifiestos and Pablo de Rokha's Arenga sobre el arte and other writings, contribute with theoretical aspects which demonstrate that Latin-Americans vanguards do not correspond to a simple prolongation of European vanguards…”
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Satire in Merlinda Bobis' Banana Heart Summer by Sherill Gilbas

“…The formalist theory was applied in the treatment of material, which is a satire, and being so, the researcher also applied defamiliarization theory, through devices such as tropes and social realism, as it forms part of the aesthetics of satire that can help identify the ideology behind the author's work. …”
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The New Brutalism: Ethic vs. Marxism? Ideological Collisions in Post-War English Architecture by Silvia Groaz

“…The various political tendencies were translated into stylistic rules that addressed types, city configuration, and even materials, according to a rich constellation of new labels: the New Humanism derived from Soviet Social Realism, the William Morris Revival and People’s Detailing, the New Picturesque advocated as a democratic model by Nikolaus Pevsner, and the New Empiricism reworked by Eric de Maré on the Cooperative Housing Schemes of the Swedish welfare state. …”
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Experiencing the digital news: the multiple dimensions of users’ experience in news media use by Omar, Bahiyah, Mustafa, Hasrina

“…Most often, it refers to media use and the feeling (such as enjoyment) resulted from the use.To fill this void, the present study turns to presence studies which espouse the idea of being there in mediated environment.As online news use involves a kind of mediated experience, this study adopts the existing measure of presence to determine the multiple dimensions of online news experience.A Principal Component Analysis (PCA) was used to establish the dimensions of the experience in this exploratory study.Four dimensions were extracted from the analysis: para-social interaction, transportation, absorption and social realism.The study found that online news users were experiencing beyond ordinary description; they interacted with the news, absorbed in the narrative world, and to certain extent felt that they were being transported into such world and also experienced the realism that the news stories tend to convey.Implications for understanding the experience in news media use from presence perspective are discussed.…”
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The Construction of a Public Space and the Poetical View of Democracy in Brazil: Analysis of A flor e a náusea by Rosa Maria FREITAS DO NASCIMENTO, Carina Laís SILVA ACIOLY

“…This work clearly has to do with social realism. As a counterpoint to Drummond's poetry, Sérgio Buarque de Holanda tries, with the work <em>Raízes do Brasil</em>, published in 1936, to predict our future through the analysis of our past. …”
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Kosta Solev Racin: Inside the Context of Macedonian Culture, as the Anticipator of the Future by Loreta Georgievska-Jakovleva

“…Racin’s poetry, that is to say, its definite belonging to the poetics of social realism, seems to link the two otherwise disjointed relations, particularly through the unification the collection White Dawns (Бели мугри) puts forth: the concept of cosmopolitanism, on the one hand, and the Macedonian folk tradition, on<br />the other, thus, to a degree, anticipating the coming of the new.…”
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La parte de los ángeles: ascenso y forja del héroe como relato social by Edisa Mondelo González, Rubén Sánchez Trigos, Alfonso Cuadrado Alvarado

“…Palabras clave: Análisis narrativo; Ken Loach; crisis del estado de bienestar; viaje del héroe; Campbell; realismo social; hibridación genérica  Keywords: Narrative analysis; Ken Loach; crisis of the welfare State; hero´s journey, Campbell, social realism, hibridization off genres…”
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Socialist Realism in Kurdish Literature: Investigating Ibrahim Ahmed’s Works by Bahar Kazemi, Jamal Ahmadi, Badrie Ghawami, Reza Borzouyi

“…A significant characteristic of social realism is its attention to the man and his problems in society. …”
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