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Realism(1875-1914)

Realism(1875-1914). Reasons. 1. American industrialization 2. The development of the Far West 3. The scientific progress 4. the product opposing “ genteelism ”. William Dean Howells Mark Twain Henry James. The definition of realism.

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Realism(1875-1914)

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  1. Realism(1875-1914)

  2. Reasons • 1. American industrialization • 2. The development of the Far West • 3. The scientific progress • 4. the product opposing “genteelism”

  3. William Dean Howells • Mark Twain • Henry James

  4. The definition of realism • a term applied to literary composition that aims at an interpretation of the actualities of any aspect of life, free from subjective prejudice, idealism, or romantic color.

  5. Major features • 1). Realism is the theory of writing in which familiar aspects of contemporary life and everyday scenes are represented in a straightforward or matter-of-fact manner. • 2). In realist fiction characters from all social levels are examined in depth.

  6. 3). Open ending is also a good example of the truthful treatment of material. • 4). Realism focuses on commonness of the lives of the common people who are customarily ignored by the arts.

  7. 5). Realism emphasizes objectivity and offers an objective rather than an idealistic view of human nature and human experience. • 6). Realism presents moral visions.

  8. Mark Twain • 1. About his life

  9. His works • Personalized fiction: The Adventured of Tom Sawyer (1876), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-Day (1873), and The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson

  10. Travel fiction: The Innocents Abroad (1869), Roughing It (1872), A Tramp Abroad (1880), Life on the Mississippi (1883), Following the Equator (1897)

  11. Historical romances: The Prince and the Pauper (1882), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889), Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc by the Sieur Louis Conte (1896)

  12. Short stories and those tall tales: The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” (1865) and “The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg” (1900).

  13. A few delightful lines from Mark Twain • It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt. • By trying, we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man’s, I mean. • A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

  14. What is the language style of Mark Twain? • 1. Use of vernacular/made colloquial speech an accepted, respected literary medium in literary history; • 2. Words: colloquial, concrete and direct in effect;

  15. 3. Sentence structures: simple, even ungrammatical; • 4. local colorism: his character are confined to a particular region and to a particular historical moment; speak with a strong accent, different characters from different backgrounds talk differently.

  16. The Lincoln of our literature • Bernard Shaw • Ernest Hemingway

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