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The 39 pages that link to Psychological realism, each with the reason it gives.

• Literary realismRelated: Its attention to motives helps make realist characters more than examples of social types.

• Naturalism (theatre)Related: It helps explain naturalism’s attention to behavior as a response to circumstance.

• Moscow Art TheatreRelated: Chekhov productions used subtle behavior to make psychological conflict legible onstage.

• Naturalistic actingRelated: Naturalistic performances often rely on coherent motives rather than overt theatrical display.

• SoliloquyRelated: Soliloquies make inner conflict visible, though their spoken form is highly theatrical.

• Murasaki ShikibuRelated: Murasaki’s sustained attention to feeling gives Genji much of its narrative depth.

• Eugene O’NeillRelated: His plays made addiction, shame, memory, and self-deception central dramatic forces.

• Theatrical realismRelated: It explains the inward credibility that realist drama seeks alongside accurate external detail.

• George EliotRelated: Eliot’s characters’ choices emerge from histories and pressures rather than simple moral labels.

• Natsume SōsekiRelated: Sōseki’s later novels make private consciousness a primary source of narrative tension.

• Psychological FictionRelated: It grounds characters’ actions in complex, recognizable motives.

• Agnes de MilleRelated: Her movement gave physical form to feelings that musical dialogue alone could not express.

• Sherwood AndersonRelated: His stories reveal isolation and desire through inward experience rather than plot alone.

• The Piano TeacherRelated: Haneke’s restrained presentation makes disturbing actions feel socially and psychologically grounded.

• Eleonora DuseRelated: Her performances made characters’ inner lives legible through small shifts in voice and gesture.

• Alberto MoraviaRelated: Moravia uses close attention to motive to expose self-deception and emotional evasion.

• Ian McEwanRelated: McEwan’s suspense often grows from precisely observed thought rather than extraordinary events.

• Madame de La FayetteRelated: Her controlled portrayal of conflicting motives became a lasting model for psychologically realistic fiction.

• Jules MaigretRelated: Simenon builds cases around the pressures and motives that Maigret patiently reconstructs.

• Dimitar DimovRelated: Dimov’s plots often turn on the pressures and contradictions within his characters.

• La Princesse de ClèvesRelated: Later fiction inherited the novel’s sustained focus on motive and self-deception.

• Maria GripeRelated: Gripe’s stories often make children’s private feelings central to the plot.

• Pierre de MarivauxRelated: His characters discover their feelings through small changes in speech and behavior.