Naturalism Flashcards
Where is this info primarily from?
Literary History of the United States, Spiller, Thorpe, et al.
In what country did Emile Zola carry the realism of Flaubert and DeMaupassant to the depths of sordidness and bitter criticism that defied even a tragic solution?
France
In France, who carried the realism of Flaubert and DeMaupassant to the depths of sordidness and bitter criticism that defied even a tragic solution?
Emile Zola
In France, Emile Zola carried the realism of who to the depths of sordidness and bitter criticism that defied even a tragic solution?
Flaubert and DeMaupassant
In France, Emile Zola carried the realism of Flaubert and DeMaupassant to where?
the depths of sordidness and bitter criticism that defied even a tragic solution
Where can the ideas of naturalism be seen in the works of Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and Turgenev?
Russia
In Russia, the ideas of naturalism can be seen in the works of who?
Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and Turgenev
Where do the writings of Thomas Hardy establish the tragedy of the individual in an uncaring universe?
England
In England, whose writing establishes the tragedy of the individual in an uncaring universe?
Thomas Hardy
In England, the writings of Thomas Hardy establish what?
the tragedy of the individual in an uncaring universe
What Thomas Hardy writings establish the tragedy of the individual in an uncaring universe?
Tess and Return of the Native
Where did naturalism take place more easily? Less easily?
More: Europe. Less: America
Why did naturalism take root more easily in Europe than in America?
innate American optimism, reinforced by prudery
Who wrote: “a novelist must be only a scientist, an analyst, an anatomist, and his work must have certainty, the solidity, and the practical application of a work of science?
Emile Zola, 1880
1880, Emile Zola wrote that who must be a scientist/analyst/anatomist and his work must have certainty/solidity/practical application of a work of science?
the novelist
1880, Emile Zola wrote that a novelist must be only a….?
Scientist, analyst, anatomist
1880, Emile Zola wrote that a novelist’s work must have….?
the certainty, solidity, and practical application of a work of science
Emile Zola’s ideas on the novelist’s role directly contradicts whose views?
Poe and Hawthorne
What is America’s first wholly original work of pure naturalism?
Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser is America’s what?
first wholly original work of pure naturalism
Who called Sister Carrie America’s first wholly original work or pure naturalism?
Spiller
Where can one discover many phases of naturalism?
American fiction
Mark Twain’s naturalism
moral confusion
Hamlin Garland’s naturalism
harsher forms of realism
