TY - JOUR TT - Realism and Reception Aesthetics in Literature AU - Yüce, Sefa PY - 2016 DA - December Y2 - 2016 DO - 10.29110/soylemdergi.255282 JF - Söylem Filoloji Dergisi JO - Söylem PB - Yusuf ÇETİN WT - DergiPark SN - 2548-0502 SP - 105 EP - 117 VL - 1 IS - 2 KW - Edebiyatta gerçekçilik KW - üst dil KW - okur KW - realizm KW - pozitivizm N2 - The human existence is a complex structure. Theemotional and intuitional dimensions of this structure penetrate to literature.It is higher than daily language. Thus, the literary text is fictive. Itexpresses the existence. The man of letters transforms a part of life or astory, in the world of art by maintaining its integrity; so she/he reconstructsand rewrites it. Like in all other art pieces, the literary pieces also havemore than a single meaning. The value and importance of a literary text is notrelated to its loyalty to the reality, but its language and style. In fact, theliterary text is the means of the creating and fictionalizing the life.What described and expressed in art andliterature is the various conditions of humanity. People considering art as atool of reflection are the persons who act from the reality of life. Accordingto them, the direction and face of the art always look to the life. Tounderstand art means somehow to understand human. The artist reflects the souland features of its own era to his/her art. The parameters for this reflectionchange depending on the culture and time. With the Age of Enlightenment, thedevelopment of philosophy deeply has influenced the arts, as well. Since thisera, the philosophical depth and perception have been prominently seen inliterary theories and pieces. The formations such as life and reality, socialrealism are the results of this perception. The reception aesthetics is also apart of this point of view. The reception aesthetics is a contemporary literarytheory. It is the reader who scrutinizes and tries to understand the text. Eachreader approaches to a text with her/his own unique knowledge and expectations.The literary work is a text that is reinterpreted and reassessed by eachreader. Thus, each comment is the expression of a free activity. The emergence of positivism in 19thcentury and its common acceptance have provided a basis for the birth ofrealism in the art. The realism is the essence of the art. All arts andespecially literature reflect the "social and historical” realities. Anart work tells its own reality. In that sense, the art work is the product ofthe conditions which it is in. Each era and period survive with its ideas andfeelings by means of its own art. Besides, the reality is not a concept that isfully identified with all its parts. The realism is the imitation of thereality in terms of certain aspects. It is some kind of the "mimesis” oflife. 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