Lectures 11 & 12 American Short Stories: From Postmodernism to Dirty Realism John Barth on the short story ‘Less really is More… there are narrative ideas suitable only for a short story: quick tales‚ epiphanies that even a novella would attenuate…. You can hold a short story in your hand‚ like a lyric poem; see it whole; examine the function of individual sentences‚ even individual words‚ as you can’t readily do with Bleak House’. Ihab Hassan: Modernism vs Postmodernism (from
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Realism and Naturalism are both responses to Romanticism. Romanticism was mainly dealing with surreal themes‚ while realism obviously does not. Many writers began to switch to realism and naturalism from romanticism because of world events and to make a change. Realism most often refers to the trend towards depictions of contemporary life and society as they were. In the spirit of general Realism‚ Realist authors opted for depictions of everyday and bland activities and experiences‚ instead of
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Franz Kafka’s Quest for an Unavailable God REVIEWED BY‚ Roz Spafford Sunday‚ April 5‚ 1998 THE CASTLE By Franz Kafka‚ translated by Mark Harman Schocken; 328 pages; Franz Kafka’s name has been appropriated as our century’s reigning adjective; ``Kafkaesque’’ is a word for which no adequate synonym exists. From the absurd circuitry of managed care to our Dilbertesque workplaces and the bizarre comic opera playing in Washington‚ the relevance of ``The Castle‚’’ Kafka’s para ble of bureaucracy gone
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discussing “Realism” as my subject. “Realism‚ in art‚ the movement of the mid-19th cent. formed in reaction against the severely academic production of the French school. Realist painters sought to portray what they saw without idealizing it‚ choosing their subjects from the commonplaces of everyday life. Major realists included Gustave Courbet‚ J. F. Millet‚ and Honoré Daumier. In a broader sense the term is applied to an unembellished rendering of natural forms. In recent years realism has come to
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identity in a hostile society” Realism & Naturalism: Novel/Age pg. 6 Pg. 3-4 “One of the major differences…” pg. 8 Last paragraph on pg. 31 “A further consideration…” Types of realism: noir realism‚ psychological realism‚ conscious realism‚ comedic realism‚ romantic realism look these up “At this point (late 1800’s) realism/naturalism modified romantic realism by emptying it of moral content‚ making the individual choice more ambiguous (as in realism) or more determined (as in naturalism)”
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opposing desires for reform and separation found in the North and the South. Historically‚ this period of tensions resulted in the Civil War. Within the literature‚ however‚ the opposing views of life were able to co-exist relatively peacefully. Romanticism is typically defined as a "literary and philosophical theory that tends to see the individual at the center of all life‚ and it places the individual‚ therefore‚ at the center of art‚ making literature valuable as an expression of unique feelings
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American Literary Realism Three of the great literary movements of nineteenth-century America were romanticism (approximately 1820-1865)‚ realism (1865-1890)‚ and naturalism (1890 into the twentieth century). All three of these movements (also known as historical genres) originated in Europe roughly thirty years before they came to America. Realism began in France‚ in the works of Balzac and‚ later‚ Flaubert‚ as a reaction against the libertarian excesses of romanticism in art and Napoleonic
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out of deep shadow‚ and Baroque that was developed mainly in Flemish countries emphasis realism of everyday life.( http://www.huntfor.com/arthistory/c17th-mid19th/baroque.htm) An example of Baroque art is The Crucifixion of Saint Andrew . This painting is about what was going on in that time. The artist‚ Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio‚ painted about what was going on in that time in society. Romanticism was big on individualism‚ subjectivism‚ irrationalism‚ imagination‚ emotions and nature
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Romanticism Greatly Impact Transcendentalism. Romanticism is a literary‚ artistic‚ and philosophical movement that began in Europe it shaped all the arts in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In a general sense‚ romanticism refers to several distinct groups of artists‚ poets‚ writers‚ and musicians as well as political‚ philosophical and social thinkers and trends of the late 18th and early 19th centuries in Europe. Romanticism generally stressed the essential goodness of human
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The Literary movement and story I decided to choose was American Romanticism‚ and “The Birthmark” by Nathaniel Hawthorne. American Romanticism is a literary period in American Literature that lasted from 1800s to 1850s. The movement itself started off as an offshoot of the European Romanticism artistic movement‚ “It arose as a reaction to the formal orthodoxy and Neoclassicism of the preceding period. It is marked by a freedom from the authority‚ forms‚ and conventions typical in Neoclassical
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