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Research Topics on: Naturalism and (Literature or Literary)

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Books on: Naturalism and (Literature or Literary)

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Form and History in American Literary Naturalism

Book by June Howard; University of North Carolina Press, 1985

Subjects:

American Fiction--History And Criticism, Fiction, Naturalism In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...fiction -- History and criticism. 2. Naturalism in literature. I. Title. PS374...history, however, I use the concept of naturalism and the vocabulary critics have...Other critics too have considered naturalisms relation to the intellectual history...
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American Literary Naturalism: A Divided Stream

Book by Charles Child Walcutt; Greenwood Press, 1956

Subjects:

American Fiction--19th Century--History And Criticism, American Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism, Naturalism In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...7017-6 Charles Child Walcutt AMERICAN LITERARY NATURALISM, A DIVIDED STREAM GREENWOOD PRESS, PUBLISHERS...centuries; but it can be taken quickly. THE EMERGENCE OF NATURALISM All literature is founded on some concept of the nature...
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Twentieth-Century American Literary Naturalism: An Interpretation

Book by Donald Pizer; Southern Illinois University Press, 1982

Subjects:

American Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism, Fiction, Naturalism In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

An important paradox characterizes the history of American literary naturalism. Although the movement has been attacked by literary journalists and academic critics since its origin in the 1890s, it has been one of the most persistent and vital strains in American fiction. Naturalism 'refuses to ...
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An important paradox characterizes the history of American literary naturalism. Although the movement has been attacked by literary journalists and academic critics since its origin in the 1890s, it has been one of the most persistent and vital strains in American fiction. Naturalism 'refuses to die' in America despite the deep antagonism it usually inspires. Few of our major twentieth-century novelists have escaped its 'taint, ' and it is perhaps the only modern literary form in America which has been both popular and significant.
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Realism and Naturalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Book by Donald Pizer; Southern Illinois University Press, 1984

Subjects:

American Fiction--19th Century--History And Criticism, Fiction, Naturalism In Literature, Realism In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Searles Donald Pizer REALISM and NATURALISM in NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN...Data Pizer, Donald. Realism and naturalism in nineteenth-century American literature...experience in art. Realism and Naturalism in Nineteenth-Century American...
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Naturalism in Nineteenth Century English Literature

Book by Georg Brandes; Russell & Russell, 1957

Subjects:

English Literature--19th Century--History And Criticism, Naturalism In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...sweeping away the classic forms and conventions, produces a Naturalism dominating the whole of literature, which from Naturalism leads to Radicalism, from revolt against traditional convention in literature to vigorous rebellion against religious...

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Journal Articles on: Naturalism and (Literature or Literary)

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"Real Classical Money": Naturalism and Mamet's American Buffalo

Journal article by Jon Dietrick; Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 52, 2006

Subjects:

American Buffalo (Play), American naturalism (Literature), American writers--Works, Authors, American--Works, Mamet, David--Works, Social drama

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...The Winslow Boy: Two Screenplays. New York: Vintage, 1998. Michaels, Walter Benn. The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism: American Literature at the Turn of the Century. Berkeley: U of California P, 1987. Miller, Arthur. Death of a Salesman...
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The Naturalism of Edith Wharton's 'House of Mirth.'

Journal article by Donald Pizer; Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 41, 1995

Subjects:

Naturalism--Literature, The House of Mirth (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Wharton, Edith--Works

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Michaels, Walter Benn. The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism. Berkeley: U of California P, 1986. 225-34. Nevius...Realism 13 (1980): 238-48. Rubin, Larry. "Aspects of Naturalism in Four Novels by Edith Wharton." Twentieth Century Literature...
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"L'angoisse De L'influence Naturaliste": Tous Quatre De Paul Margueritte et le Termite De J.-H. Rosny

Journal article by Catherine Dousteyssier-Khoze; Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Vol. 31, 2002

Subjects:

French naturalism (Literature), Literary techniques, Literary themes, Literature--Themes, motives, Zola, Emile--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...generation naturaliste se rebeller contre le naturalisme zolien. En depit des temperaments completement...quant a lui un ecrivain representatif du naturalisme outrancier de la seconde generation...deux le malaise profond qui touche le naturalisme; ils narrativisent la crise du roman...
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"Reception Moments," Modern Literary Theory, and the Teaching of Literature: Accessible Points for Discussion Make Literary Criticism Understandable and Useful for Students

Journal article by Patrick Sullivan; Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, Vol. 45, 2002

Subjects:

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Communication--Models, Criticism--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Literature--Study and teaching, Reading comprehension--Study and teaching

Collections: Education, Literature, Entire Library

...Norton. Pizer, D. (1976). Realism and naturalism in nineteenth-century American literature...Huckleberry Finn in America. American Literature, 11, 260-272. Wallace, J.H. (1992...University Press. Warner, M. (1987). Literary studies and the history of the book...
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Literary Alternatives to Rational Choice: Historical Psychology and Semi-Detached Marriages

Journal article by Regenia Gagnier; English Literature in Transition 1880-1920, Vol. 51, 2008

Subjects:

Elster, Jon--Criticism and interpretation, Elster, Jon--Works, Literature--Study and teaching, Nussbaum, Martha C.--Criticism and interpretation, Nussbaum, Martha C.--Works, Philosophers--Criticism and interpretation, Philosophers--Works, Political theorists--Criticism and interpretation, Political theorists--Works, Psychologists--Criticism and interpretation, Psychologists--Works, Psychology and literature--Study and teaching, Psychology in literature--Study and teaching, Psychology--Influence

Collections: Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...humankind, society, the nervous system, and literature, but not three disciplines plus raw...of science and emotion not that of literature, and in which we are not asked to choose...Longinus suggested it much earlier--that literary genres map the larger temporal features...we can state that the more morbid literature of the Decadence is controlled by nerves...

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Magazine Articles on: Naturalism and (Literature or Literary)

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Darwin Re-crucified: Why Are So Many Afraid of Naturalism?

Magazine article by Paul Kurtz; Free Inquiry, Vol. 18, Spring 1998

Subjects:

Creationism--Research, Evolution--Religious aspects, Naturalism--Moral and ethical aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library

...evolving in time; human life is continuous with other natural processes and can be explained in terms of them. To defend naturalism today is to say something significant, for it is an alternative to supernaturalism, which is, in the last analysis, based...
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'Religious Naturalism' and a New Planetary Ethic

Magazine article; Free Inquiry, Vol. 20, Summer 2000

Subjects:

Biologists--Interviews, Goodenough, Ursula--Interviews, Naturalism--Religious aspects, Religion and science--Analysis, Washington University--Officials and employees

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library

...former president, Senegal; J.J.C. Smart, professor of philosophy Univ. of Adelaide, Australia; Wole Soyinka, Nobel Laureate in Literature, Nigeria; Svetozar Stojanovic, professor of philosophy Univ. of Belgrade; Thomas Szasz, professor of psychiatry, SUNY Medical...
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The Koltes Mystique: Making His Metaphysical French Dramas Suited to American Ears Requires Actors, Not Literary Translators

Magazine article by Randy Gener; American Theatre, Vol. 24, May-June 2007

Subjects:

American drama--Criticism and interpretation, French drama--Criticism and interpretation, Koltes, Bernard-Marie--Appreciation, Koltes, Bernard-Marie--Criticism and interpretation, Koltes, Bernard-Marie--Works

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...but oblique, obtuse or enigmatic in their resolute anti-naturalism, teeming with crystal-clear talk but putting forward...entranced by the process of translating Koltes not as a literary endeavor but as an acting challenge. "Bernard-Marie prefers...
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North Korea: A Literary View

Magazine article by Yearn Hong Choi; Contemporary Review, Vol. 268, February 1996

Subjects:

Communism--Literature, North Korea--Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...for the sake of art, and claim that the so-called pure literature is not useful for human welfare at all. They condemn naturalism, imagism, romanticism, and other literary thoughts. Poetry and novels should only serve the masses welfare, idealism...
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Les Bienveillantes: Tobias Grey Discusses the Impact of a Controversial Historical Novel That Has Become a Literary Sensation in France, and Asks Some French-Based Commentators and Historians for Their Reactions

Magazine article by Tobias Grey; History Today, Vol. 57, February 2007

Subjects:

Authors--Criticism and interpretation, Authors--Works, Les Bienveillantes (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Littell, Jonathan--Criticism and interpretation, Littell, Jonathan--Works, Writers--Criticism and interpretation, Writers--Works

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...French writers are navel-gazers, interested in nothing more than writing about their own problems. Its a kind of egotistic naturalism which is endemic of a deeper French malaise. Just take a look at last years literary prize-winners: most are writers...

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Newspaper Articles on: Naturalism and (Literature or Literary)

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On Not Living Well in New York

Newspaper article by Carol Herman; The Washington Times, August 29, 1999

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...to the filmmakers James Ivory, Ismail Merchant and Ruth and Cyrus Jhabvala. In addition to their lush renderings of such literary classics as "Room With a View" and "Howards End," the team gave the world "Slaves of New York," a movie based on the bestseller...
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'Eyes' on the Prize - and off the Text Oprah's Version of Classic Novel Gets Distracted by Berry

Newspaper article by Ted Cox; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), March 4, 2005

Subjects:

Berry, Halle, Hurston, Zora Neale, Winfrey, Oprah

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...respect for black heritage with a nascent feminism. At times, she seems to be grasping for a black spirituality and a naturalism far beyond the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant conception of God. The TV movie finds Janie time and again looking at the...
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Film: Where Excess Is Never Enough; Mike Davies Takes a Look at the Week's Cinema Releases

Newspaper article by Mike Davies; The Birmingham Post (England), April 21, 2000

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...eroticism Rozemas co-opting of the slavery issue for a feminist comment on marriage, and, far from the last scraps of an over-mined literary seam, this is arguably the finest, most intelligent Austen adaptation to date. SNOW DAY CERT PG. 90MINS Although taking...
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How We Reinvented Chekhov; the Great Russian Dramatist Died 100 Years Ago This Week and His Plays Have Never Been More Popular. That, Says Our Theatre Critic, Is Because We Have Recast Chekhov as an English Country Gentlemen Instead of the Blazing Social Reformer He Was

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), July 12, 2004

Subjects:

Chekhov, Anton

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...blinkered attitude was typical. Western critics thought it odd that Chekhovs plays were devoid of obvious action. His pseudo-naturalism and pointillist style disconcerted. In his stories, a reviewer wrote in 1902, there was not "a single intelligent, honourable...
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Seven Wonders of London

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), December 14, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...of great feats of oarsmanshipand running, turned to sculpture after Cambridge and worked in the then currentblend of naturalism and classical subject that was international in his day.His Death of Dirce is a characteristic example. Dirce was a cruel...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: Naturalism and (Literature or Literary)

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Naturalism , in Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...environment, physical drives. The chief literary theorist on naturalism was Emile Zola , who said in his essay Le Roman experimental...James T. Farrell , and James Jones . In the drama, naturalism developed in the late 19th cent. By stressing photographic...
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Dutch and Flemish Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Beets . The 1880s saw a reorientation of Dutch letters under foreign influence, especially under that of French naturalism and the English poets Keats and Shelley. By 1900, impressionistic themes were emerging in poetry. The new forces were...
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German Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...economy, other important playwrights were Franz Grillparzer and C. F. Hebbel . The Nineteenth Century: Realism and Naturalism The revolutionary literary movement known as Young Germany, which strove to arouse German political opinion, turned...
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French Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...short stories. The movement toward naturalism had its foremost French representative...1968); 19th cent.: A. Thibaudet, French Literature from 1795 to Our Era (1968); I. Babbitt...20th cent.: J. OBrien, The French Literary Horizon (1967); H. Peyre, French Novelists...
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American Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...These were forerunners of naturalism , which reached heights in...or ignored in mainstream literature. Bibliography See R. E. Spiller et al., ed., Literary History of the United States...ed., Annals of American Literature, 1602 1983 (1986); E. Elliott et al., ed., Columbia Literary History of the United States...

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