the realism, americal literature pps

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TRAN THI HONG GAM

NGUYEN THI NGUYET

NGUYEN THI SINH

NGUYEN THI THUY

TRAN THACH THUY

NGUYEN THI TOAN

American literature

I Definition

IV Contribution

I Definition

- Realism:

The faithful representation of reality

- “Realism is nothing more and nothing less than the truthful treatment of material.” William Dean Howells, “Editor’s Study,”

Harper's New Monthly Magazine (November 1889)

II Social Background

(1860-1914)

USA: From a small, young, agricultural, ex-colony

to huge, modern, industrial nation

+ After civil war (1861-1865): Business boomed

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 Strikes and struggling (farmer, worker- money interests)

III Characteristics

Ethical subject

Character (more important than action and plot)

Middle, lower classes

Plausible events, (Realistic novels avoid the sensational, dramatic elements of

naturalistic novels and romances)

III Characteristics

Natural vernacular (diction); tone may be comic, satiric, or matter-of-fact

Completely authorial objectivity

Concept of realism as a realization of democracy- a world truly reported

IV Contribution

- Devoted to accurate representation and an exploration of American lives in various

contexts

( Emphasized specific, detailed descriptions of actual places and reproduced regional

dialects)

The schools of American Realism:

1) Frontier Humor

2) Midwestern realism

3) Cosmopolitan Novelist

4) Regionalism (local color)

5) Naturalism

6) The Chicago School of poets

7) The rise of black American literature

FRONTIER HUMOR

• had earlier roots in local oral traditions

• Make lively by exaggeration, tall tales, incredible boasts, and comic workingmen heroes

• Each region had its colorful characters

• The exploits were exaggerated and enhanced in ballads, newspapers, and

magazines

• Twain, Faulkner, Johnson Hooper,

George Washington Harris, Augustus Longstreet

MIDWESTERN REALISM

• William Dean Howells

A Modern Instance (1882),

The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885),

A Hazard of New Fortunes (1890),

• carefully interweave social circumstances with the emotions of ordinary middleclass Americans

COSMOPOLITAN

• Contrasts Americans and Europeans

• Henry James (1843-1916)

The Wings of the Dove (1902),

The Ambassadors(1903)

• Edith Wharton (1862-1937)

The House of Mirth (1905), The

Custom of the Country (1913),

Local Colorists

• has old roots but produced its best works long after the Civil War

• paint striking portraits of specific American

regions.

• All regions of the country celebrated themselves in writing influenced

by local color.

• Bret Harte, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sarah Orne Jewett

TWO WOMEN REGIONAL NOVELISTS

• Ellen Glasgow(1873-1945)

Barren Ground (1925)

• Willa Cather (1873-1947)

Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927)

• Explored women’s lives, placed in brilliantly evoked regional settings

• used realism to relate the individual to society

• Daringly opened up the seamy underside of society and such topics as divorce, sex, adultery, poverty, and crime

• Stephen Crane, Jack London, Theodore Dreiser

The Chicago School of poets

• concerns obscure individuals

• realism, dramatic renderings—techniques

• Edgar Lee Masters (1868-1950)

Spoon River Anthology

• Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)

“Chicago” (1914):

THE RISE OF BLACK AMERICAN LITERATURE

• one of the most striking literary developments of the post-Civil War era

• the roots of black American writing were understood and used ,

• Booker T Washington(1856-1915)

• Du Bois (1868 - 1963)

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