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About this Episode
We talk about realism, what it is, what it does, and what it pretends to be, from Fredric Jameson's Antimonies of Realism to Scheherazade to Nabokov putting "reality" in quotation marks. (Doesn't sound very realistic actually.) Alternate title: Welcome to the Desert of the Real...
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