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otherworld realism
[uhth -er-wurld] [ree-uh-liz-uh m]
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noun

1. a style of literature devoted to intellectual and imaginative pursuits that point towards a potential, evolved reality.
2. a genre that represents the known world in an elevated or defamiliarising way.
3. art and literature that evokes the space before clarity in which one must navigate the logic of intuition and instinct, alongside the duplicity of fact.
4. an approach illuminating a psychic space of process; a space of ambiguity, silence, and internal struggle.
5. the pre-dawn.

Word Origin
2017; coined by Lazuli Literary Group; first appearing in AZURE: A Journal of Literary Thought, Volume One. ​

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