美国现实主义.American Realism.pptAmerican Realism (1860-1914)
I. The Definition of Realism & Historical Background
II. American Realism
III. Mark Twain
IV. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)
Romanticism
Imagination
fictional
Realism
Reality
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Realism
In literature, faithful representation of life. Realism carries the conviction of true reports of phenomena observable by others. It may be contrasted with ROMANTICISM, IMPRESSIONISM, and EXPRESSIONISM, which are less true to external phenomena, although each carries its own kind of truth.
Realism is a slippery (difficult to understand) term, sometimes used too loosely to be of value except as an indicator of a reader's reaction.
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The term realism refers, sometimes, confusingly, both to a literary method based on detailed accuracy of description and to a more general attitude that rejects idealization, escapism, and other extravagant qualities of romance in favor of recognizing soberly the actual problems of life.
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It is anti-romantic, and anti-sentimental. To put it another way, realism is applied by literary critics in two diverse ways: (1) to designate a recurrent mode of, in various eras and literary forms, of representing human life and experience in literature, and (2) to identify a movement in the writing of novels during the eenth century.
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As a mode of writing, it gives the impression of recording or reflecting faithfully an actual way of life, of representing life as it really is.
Realistic fiction is written to give the effect that it represents life and the social world as it seems to mon reader, evoking the sense that its characters might in fact exist, and such things might well happen.
It is characterized by verisimilitude (逼真) of details derived from observation.
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They offer an objective rather than an idealistic view of human nature and human experience, an objective account of real life. They are detached observers of life. The narrators in their work stand back to report what they have
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