Influence of Realism on Literature :: Literature Realism

Influence of realness on Literature After World state of warfare I, the Statesn people and the authors among them were left disillusi angiotensin-converting enzymed by the effects that war had on their society. America needed a literature that would explain what had happened and what was contingency to their society. American writers turned to what is now known as new-fashionedism. The influence of nineteenth Century realism and naturalism and their truthful representation of American feeling and people was evident in post World War I modernism. This paper will try to prove this by presenting the basic ideas and of these literary genres, literary examples of each, and then make connections between the two literary operations. Realism Modernism not only depicted American society later World War I accurately and unbiasedly, but also seek to find the solutions brought upon by the suffering spend a pennyd by the war (Elliott 705). The realistic movement of the late 19th century saw authors accurately depict sprightliness and its problems. Realists attempted to give a comprehensive picture of modern life (Elliott 502) by presenting the entire picture. They did not try to give one view of life but instead attempted to show the divers(prenominal) classes, manners, and stratification of life in America. Realists created this picture of America by trust a wide variety of details derived from observation and documentation... to approach the average of experience... (3). Along with this technique, realists compared the objective or absolute existence in America to that of the universal truths, or observed facts of life (Harvey 12). In other words, realists objectively looked at American society and pointed out the aspects that it had in common with the usual truths of existence. This realistic movement evolved as a result of many varys and transitions in American culture. In the late 1800s, the United States was experi encing swift growth and change as a result of a changing economy, society, and culture because of an influx in the number of immigrants into America. Realists such as Henry James and William doyen Howells, two of the most prolific writers of the Nineteenth-century, used typical realistic methods to create an accurate depiction of changing American life.