Literary Movements

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• Suppressed emotions
• Exaggeration in architecture, home decorations, people’s dress

• Modernists revolted against this stifling era
• Gothic novels were popular

Realism

• 1850 - 1890
• Reaction against romanticism
• Truthful treatment of material
• Be the objective camera
• Concentrate on the present
• Influenced by the Civil War (for the U.S.), Freud, Industrial Revolution, Marx, and Darwin.
• Interest in the Middle Class (the bourgeoisie) and its problems, values, etc.
• Democratic attitude

Naturalism

• Extreme realism – also called calloused realism
• Influenced by the industrial revolution, Freud and Darwin
• Nature acts upon people who are victims of heredity and environment
• The universe is neutral to man’s suffering and joy.
• There is no higher purpose for living than just the activity of living.
• Clinical, documentary style

Symbolism

• 1885 – 95
• Emotional, romantic reaction to realism
• Origin – France about 1850 (Baudelaire)
• Edgar Allen Poe was an influence
• Deeply influenced British and American poetry in the 20th century
• The goal of art is the personal, emotional response
• Authors: Hugo, Tennyson, Joyce, Yeats, Singe

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A student, who is studying English as a foreign language, was confused when he saw the words “open here” on a box of laundry soap, so he asks the clerk, “Can’t I wait until I get home to open it?”

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