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Realism Across the Globe (Volume E)
Realism
• truth without sentiment• democracy• middle- and working-
class issues• industrialization • city versus countryside• sensory experience• “beauty”
Literary Aims
• ordinary language
• omniscient or first-person narrator
• issues with plot, scenarios, endings
• “unvarnished truth telling”
• ethical dilemmas
• questions
Elements
Darwinism and Naturalism
• adaptation to one’s social environment
• choice and human biochemistry
• social profiling
Capturing Reality
Higuchi Ichiyō
• Japanese realism• poor, marginal
characters• city life and finance• speech, dialogue
Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941)
• Nobel Prize (1913)• polydidact• multifaceted• Indian realism• school at
Shantiniketan, 1901• Rabindra-sangit
Dostoevsky• “They call me a
psychologist but it’s not true. I’m merely a realist in a higher sense, that is to say I describe all the depths of the human soul” (p. 635).
• Russian Orthodox Church
• 1821, Moscow• death sentence, exile• gambling, epilepsy
Though it spread quickly across the globe, and in some cases developed from local literary traditions, realism began primarily in which of the following?
a. France and Russiab. Japanc. North America and Britaind. Britain and France
Test Your Knowledge
Realist fiction tended to feature which of the following?
a. great heroes of the pastb. the poorc. British kingsd. mythic archetypes
Test Your Knowledge
Realist fiction tended to emphasize which of the following?
a. transcendent experienceb. spiritual awakeningc. empirical realityd. sense and sensibility
Test Your Knowledge
The genre primarily associated with realism is: _________.
a. dramab. poetryc. prose nonfictiond. the novel
Test Your Knowledge
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