variants
or antirealism
: opposition to or deliberate eschewal of realism especially in art and literature
There are as many different varieties of antirealism as there are of realism—perhaps more.—Michael Boyd
anti-realist
noun
or antirealist
Nineteenth-century antirealists invented various kinds of fantasy in order to free imagination from rational skepticism and diminish the reality principle's hold on narrative.
—Robert Higbie
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