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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PsyzhranV2" data-source="post: 7931577" data-attributes="member: 7015332">That's not realism. Realism is an artistic movement spanning across visual art, literature, and theatre that started in the 1800s as a reaction to Romanticism. Realist works focus on the presentation of the everyday, the normal, the mundane, and avoid stylization. Often times, realist works would focus on showing the life and times of the poor and the underclasses. Subgenres of realism include social realism, American regionalism, British kitchen sink realism, Soviet proletariat literature, and French naturalism, among others.What you're trying to describe, I would call either "verisimilitude" or "historical accuracy". However, the nature of both terms undermines your argument of one truth, one "real". Verisimilitude is but invoking the perception of reality; as long as it feels real, it doesn't matter if it actually is. As for historical accuracy, let's just say that academic history is in no way settled. The discovery of new events, emergence of evidence that challenges previously held theories and models of events, and emergent and conflicting analyses of historical events make it so that trying to present one viewpoint, one telling of history as "accurate" is a non-starter.</blockquote>