Influence of Realism on Literature :: Literature Realism

Influence of Realism on Literature After World War I, American people and the authors among them were leave disillusioned by the effects that war had on their alliance. America postu later(a) a literature that would explain what had happened and what was happening to their society. American writers turned to what is direct known as modernism. The influence of 19th Century realism and pragmatism and their truthful representation of American life and people was evident in post World War I modernism. This paper will tense up to prove this by presenting the basic ideas and of these literary genres, literary examples of each, and then receive connections between the two literary movements. Realism Modernism not that depicted American society after World War I accurately and unbiasedly, only also tried to find the solutions brought upon by the vile created by the war (Elliott 705). The realistic movement of the late 19th one C saw authors accurately depict life and its problems. Realists attempted to roll a comprehensive picture of modern life (Elliott 502) by presenting the full picture. They did not try to give one view of life but instead attempted to show the different classes, manners, and stratification of life in America. Realists created this picture of America by combining a wide manikin of details derived from observation and documentation... to approach the norm of experience... (3). Along with this technique, realists compared the objective or absolute existence in America to that of the universal truths, or observe 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 general truths of existence. This realistic movement evolved as a give of many changes and transitions in American culture. In the late 1800s, the United States was experiencing swift growth and change as a result of a changing economy, so ciety, and culture because of an influx in the number of immigrants into America. Realists much(prenominal) as Henry James and William Dean Howells, two of the most prolific writers of the Nineteenth-century, used typical realistic methods to create an accurate depiction of changing American life.