ENG REALISM STUDY GUIDE
What year was AMBROSE BIERCE born
1842
what year was STEPHEN CRANE born
1871
What year was JACK LONDON born
1876
In the THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY Zeal means
A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced
In the THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY Idiot means
A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling
In the THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY Bore means
A person who talks when you wish him to listen
In the THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY Circus means
A place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool
WHY DID THIS REALISM MOVEMENT COME ABOUT?
A reaction against Romanticism rejected heroic, adventurous, or unfamiliar subjects The harsh reality of frontier life and the Civil War shattered the nation's idealism
In the THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY Novel means
A short story padded
In the THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY Love means
A temporary insanity curable by marriage
what are the writings of regionalism like
ALL the characteristics of Realism plus using regional dialects; ● descriptions of a local area or region; ● local cultures and customs. • Writers attempt to make the reader feel they've been to an area without actually going ther
Who Fought on the side of the Union during the Civil War ● Part of Sherman's March to the Sea Severely wounded and cited for bravery fifteen times • Left the army, moved to San Francisco, began to write for newspapers and Married in 1871, separated in 1888 because he found compromising letters" from an admirer of his wife then he wrote The Devil's Dictionary he left America in 1913 to report on (or perhaps join the Mexican Revolution) had a niece Lora:
Ambrose Bierce
In the THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY Corportion means
An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
In the THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY Cannon means
An instrument employed in the rectification of national boundaries
In the THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY Clarionet means
An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his ears. There are two instruments that are worse than a clarionet — two clarionets
In the THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY Telephone means
An invention of the devil which [has] the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance
what is romanticism taste of class
Aspired to the ideal Thought to be more genteel since it did not show the vulgar details of life
what are realists writings like
Attempts to be objective
what happen in civil war
Battles destroyed farms and homes Cities were bombarded and burned and sherman march
what are romantics characters like
Characters are "larger than life
what are realism characters like
Characters are ordinary people
What did Stephen Crane died of and how old was he
Diagnosed with tuberculosis, he died in a sanitarium inGermany in 1900. He was only twenty-eight years old
what are romanticism writings like
Highly subjective
In the THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY Yankee means
In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the Southern States the word is unknown
How did Jack London died
In his later years, London's health deteriorated due to alcoholism London overdosed on narcotics in November of 1916 and lapsed into a coma. ● He died the following evening at the age of forty
Who was As a boy, he was largely uncared for by his parents";• In his teens, he: ● was an oyster pirate; ● sailed on a schooner; ● went seal-hunting; ● wrote for several newspapers; ● prospected for gold in the Klondike left the Klondike after only a year due to illness
JACK LONDON
REGIONALIST WRITERS
Kate Chopin—South • Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman—N ew England • Mark Twain—West • Willa Cather—Midwest
what are some additions to naturalism that isn't in realism
Man has LITTLE control over his fate; ● Life is NEVER perfect; problems exist in society; ● Life is ALMOST NEVER fair; ● Good ALMOST NEVER wins over Evil; Nature does not care about the plight of man
who started the LITERATURE OF DISCONTENT
Many groups, from women to freed slaves, started expressing their discontent with the way things were and started writing
what are romanticism plots like
Plot is developed by unusual events, mystery, or high adventure
what are realist plots like
Plot is developed with ordinary events and circumstances
what are romantics settings like
Settings are often fictional or exotic and mysterious (or both)
what are realist settings like
Settings exist or are based on actual places
who was youngest of fourteen children; often ill as a child • First work "published" in 1893 ● Maggie: A Girl of the Streets ● Financial failure wrote The Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane
NATURALIST WRITERS
Stephen Crane • Ambrose Bierce • Jack London • Edwin Arlington Robinson • Katherine Anne Porter • Charlotte Perkins Gilman • Edith Wharton
what are naturalism themes
Survival (man against nature, man against himself) ● Determinism (nature as an indifferent force on the lives of human beings) violence
In the THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY Vote means
The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country
What is realism taste of class
Thought to be more democratic • Critics stressed the potential for vulgarity and its emphasis on the commonplace • Potential "poison" for the pure of mind
How did the The Industrial Revolution help realist to continue after the war
economic, social, and political changes that took place in post war life
What are characterics of realism
honest, believable characters; realistic dialogue; events in the story that seem possible in real life
Realism is reaction to what
idealise romantic novels
how did the civil war change the writings
life wasn't so nice anymore
what were some of the themes of regionalism
local flavor" or "local color" wrote about the South or the West and humor and small-town characters
Realism appeals to what group of people
middle class
What is realism tone
natural vernacular, not heightened or poetic maybe comic,satrie, or matter of fact
what believed that forces larger than the individual - nature, fate, heredity - shaped individual destiny was extension of realism
naturalism
What were naturalist writings like
pessimistic believed that larger forces were at work: Nature, Fate, and Heredity. Their writing was inspired by hardships, whether it was war, the frontier, or urbanization
Who were writers who sought to portray real life without filtering it through personal feelings, romanticism, or idealism
realism
How did journalist write the civil war
realistic writings and started photography
what does local color mean
reliance on minor details and dialects
what are naturalism characters like
usually ill-educated or lower-class, the criminal, the fallen, the down-and-out lives governed by the forces of heredity, instinct, passion, or environment