Regionalism/Realism/Naturalism Flashcards
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Local Color/Regionalism Traits? 1. 2. 3.
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- Dialect/vernacular
- Character types
- Local customs
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Local Color/Regionalism Causes? 1. 2. 3.
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- Expansion
- Independent American spirit
- Writers liked showing differences
2
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Local Color/ regionalism
Positives?
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Diversity
Uniqueness
Pride
3
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Local Color
Negatives ?
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Prejudices
Stereotypes
Isolation
Not United
4
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Local Color and Regionalism = ?
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An important transition between Romanticism and Realism
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Naturalism:
Darwins theory ?
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Survival of the fittest
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Q
Naturalism
Humans?
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Are victims of forces they can’t control
Writers depicted events determined by forces : heredity and environment
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Naturalism
Instinct ?
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Natures gift
Work w/ nature to survive
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Naturalism
God?
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Cold and indifferent
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Naturalism
Man?
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Nameless, insignificant, struggles for survival
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Naturalism?
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Extreme form of realism
11
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Realism
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Focused on facts Records events as they happened Civil war/ industrial revolution Depressing Slice of life
12
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Verisimilitude
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Truthful treatment of material
13
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Whitman
Works?
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Leaves of Grass There Once was a Child that Went Forth O captain, my captain Wrote about Abraham Lincoln One's-Self I Sing I hear America singing Noiseless patient spider Beat beat drums
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Whitman
Used ?
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List
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