David Sergeant is Associate Professor of Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature at the University of Plymouth. He is currently completing a monograph about fictions of the near future.
David Sergeant

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From its inception, much of the discussion around the terms realism and modernism stems from the fact that both are responses to a historically shifting conception of the “real,” naming different procedures for representing it, with implicit and explicit claims as to their adequacy for doing so.