ENG 2104 Lecture : Class 04 - January 21st, 2019 (1)
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At the most elementary level, realism may be equated with verisimilitude or the approximation of truth. A mimic artist, the literary realist claims to mirror or represent the world as it objectively appears. Naturalism may be given a tri of thumbnail definitions: pessimistic determinism, stark realism, and realism plus darwin. Naturalism emphasizes determinism (that every impression that a person has is determined by their physical and material reality) Realism: the art of depicting nature as it is seen by toads. ambrose bierce, the devil"s. In criticism and fiction (1891) howells urged readers to apply this test to any work of the imagination: True to the motives, the impulses, the principles that shape the life of actual men and women? . Let fiction cease to lie about life he declared. Expresses human psychology in subtle and sophisticated ways. Howells proposed an evolutionary literary model, with realism superior to romance just as primates are more sophisticated species than lizards.
