Realism/Anti-Realism in 20th-Century Literature

Modernist literature and art have been dominated by a disinterest in mere empirical and social reality and a discontent with habitualized perception and the world-view of convention, reason, and pragmatism. This anti-realistic attitude originated in the epistemological scepticism of the early 20th century which was even radicalized by the advent of the linguistic turn , constructivism, postmodernism, and poststructuralism.