Examples of literary realism in the following topics:
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- Naturalism was a literary movement that used realism to explore the effects of heredity and social environment on human character.
- Naturalism was a literary movement taking place from roughly 1880 to 1940 that used detailed realism to suggest that social conditions, heredity, and environment had inescapable force in shaping human character.
- Naturalism is the outgrowth of literary realism , a prominent literary movement in mid-19th-century France and elsewhere.
- Whereas realism seeks only to describe subjects as they really are, naturalism also attempts to determine the underlying forces (e.g., the environment or heredity) influencing the actions of its subjects.
- A strong characteristic of literary naturalism is the author's detachment from the story and the attempt to maintain a tone that will be experienced as 'objective' by the reader.
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- American realism attempted to portray the life of ordinary Americans at home, presenting a new artistic perspective.
- For Twain and other American writers of the late nineteenth century, realism was not merely a literary technique: It was a way of speaking truth and exploding worn-out conventions.
- Naturalism was a literary movement taking place from roughly 1880 to 1940 that used detailed realism to suggest that social conditions, heredity, and environment had an inevitable role in shaping human character.
- Naturalism is the outgrowth of literary realism, a prominent literary movement in mid-nineteenth century France and elsewhere.
- Analyze the new focus on realism and how it manifested itself in the arts
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- For example, literary professionals were hired to produce the State Guide Series - a series of popular guidebooks for every state.
- The commitment to realism resulted also in the popularization of photography.
- Adaptations of classic or best-selling literary works, biographies of famous individuals, or big adventure movies were the most common examples.
- Other important literary works
of the Great Depression era
that reached the status of American classics include: William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!
- The 1930s witnessed also the development of popular literary genres.
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- The mid-nineteenth century often has been considered an "American Renaissance" due to the number and quality of literary works produced.
- During the mid-nineteenth century, many American literary masterpieces were produced.
- Literary nationalists at this time were calling for a movement that would develop a unique American literary style to distinguish American literature from British literature.
- As often happens, historians emphasize the works produced by white men during the American Renaissance, but many African Americans and women produced great literary works, too.
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- The Southern Renaissance literary movement of the 1920s and
1930s broke from the romantic view of the Confederacy.
- The writers of the movement broke from
common Southern cultural literary themes, notably the regrettable fall of the
Confederacy, to address more personal and modernized viewpoints including opposition
to industrialization and the South’s abiding racism.
- Yet African-American
writers were not considered part of the Southern literary tradition as defined
by the white, primarily male authors who saw themselves as its creators and
guardians.
- Mencken was an influential American writer and social critic who unwittingly helped to launch the Southern Renaissance literary movement.
- Native Son author Richard Wright was one of the notable African-American authors who has been arguably overlooked as part of the Southern literary tradition.
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- Toklas , which became a literary bestseller.
- The advent of this book elevated Stein from the relative obscurity of a cult literary figure into the light of mainstream attention.
- Additional important literary works of the depression era include: William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!
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- Some of the chief literary figures of the 1920s emerged from World War I, dillusioned and cynical about the world, and writing novels and short stories criticizing the materialism and individualism of the age.
- Eliot are other major literary figures of this era.
- This was also the era of the Harlem Renaissance, the period of African-American literary and artistic cultural growth from about 1917 to 1930.
- Some of the greatest literary figures of the movement included Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston.
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- The popularity of the novel in the North alarmed many Southern whites, who saw the literary attack on slavery as a mirror of the political attack on the expansion of slavery by northern Whigs.
- Uncle Tom's Cabin has also inspired many literary works thematically concerned with race and U.S. slave culture.
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- The Harlem Renaissance was an arts and literary movement in the 1920s that brought African-American culture to mainstream America.
- Race pride had already been part of literary
and political self-expression among African-Americans in the 19th Century.
- He
argued that the "Negro Literary Renaissance" notion overlooked
"the stream of literary and artistic products which had flowed
uninterruptedly from Negro writers from 1850 to the present," and said the
so-called "renaissance" was largely a white invention.
- Moreover, many
black artists who rose to creative maturity afterward were inspired by this
literary movement.
- Author Zora Neale Hurston, best known for her novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, was one of the literary luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance.
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- Although it continued to aim at restraining the Soviet Union, detente was based on political realism, or thinking in terms of national interest, as opposed to crusades against communism or for democracy.