Great Works - Assignment 15 James Madison University

Instructions (roughly one to one and a half typed pages - You MAY use this assignment as your one fully GRADED assignment for the semester. If you choose this option, please so indicate on the top of the assignment! Otherwise, this assignment will be graded only as acceptable or unacceptable effort. Note that other options for the fully graded assignment will include a forthcoming assignment and a resubmission of a refined version of an earlier assignment (from a limited selection). Details will be posted separately.)

After reading the excerpt from "On the Conflict Between Realism and Art" by Guy de Maupassant (available on Blackboard in course documents), type your treatment of the following:
How might attempts to define and characterize speculative fiction genres intersect with de Maupassant's argument about realism and art? You should reflect carefully both on the general idea of speculative fiction and on the particular issues of one more specific speculative fiction genre (science fiction? magical realism? other?)