Lectures 11 & 12 American Short Stories: From Postmodernism to Dirty Realism John Barth on the short story ‘Less really is More… there are narrative ideas suitable only for a short story: quick tales‚ epiphanies that even a novella would attenuate…. You can hold a short story in your hand‚ like a lyric poem; see it whole; examine the function of individual sentences‚ even individual words‚ as you can’t readily do with Bleak House’. Ihab Hassan: Modernism vs Postmodernism (from
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The News: Realism‚ Narrative and Form ________________________________________ The questions of Realism‚ bias and representation take us back to the material we looked at in the first two weeks of the course. As I have tried to stress‚ when we look at the issue of "realism" and the "representation of reality" in the media we have to be aware of the fact that the media always presents a "mediated" version of that reality‚ on its own terms. Sociological‚ political‚ cultural and ideological
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Adolescence‚ An Alice in Wonderland Story Adolescence‚ something we can all relate to whether we want to admit it or not. It is a period in our lives in which we think we know everything‚ but in reality we know nothing. It is essentially the crossroads between childhood and adulthood. Throughout Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland‚ Alice goes through a series of physical changes and mental realizations that directly correlate with the transformation that engulfs adolescence. As Alice goes
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Realism and Naturalism are both responses to Romanticism. Romanticism was mainly dealing with surreal themes‚ while realism obviously does not. Many writers began to switch to realism and naturalism from romanticism because of world events and to make a change. Realism most often refers to the trend towards depictions of contemporary life and society as they were. In the spirit of general Realism‚ Realist authors opted for depictions of everyday and bland activities and experiences‚ instead of
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discussing “Realism” as my subject. “Realism‚ in art‚ the movement of the mid-19th cent. formed in reaction against the severely academic production of the French school. Realist painters sought to portray what they saw without idealizing it‚ choosing their subjects from the commonplaces of everyday life. Major realists included Gustave Courbet‚ J. F. Millet‚ and Honoré Daumier. In a broader sense the term is applied to an unembellished rendering of natural forms. In recent years realism has come to
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identity in a hostile society” Realism & Naturalism: Novel/Age pg. 6 Pg. 3-4 “One of the major differences…” pg. 8 Last paragraph on pg. 31 “A further consideration…” Types of realism: noir realism‚ psychological realism‚ conscious realism‚ comedic realism‚ romantic realism look these up “At this point (late 1800’s) realism/naturalism modified romantic realism by emptying it of moral content‚ making the individual choice more ambiguous (as in realism) or more determined (as in naturalism)”
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opposing desires for reform and separation found in the North and the South. Historically‚ this period of tensions resulted in the Civil War. Within the literature‚ however‚ the opposing views of life were able to co-exist relatively peacefully. Romanticism is typically defined as a "literary and philosophical theory that tends to see the individual at the center of all life‚ and it places the individual‚ therefore‚ at the center of art‚ making literature valuable as an expression of unique feelings
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American Literary Realism Three of the great literary movements of nineteenth-century America were romanticism (approximately 1820-1865)‚ realism (1865-1890)‚ and naturalism (1890 into the twentieth century). All three of these movements (also known as historical genres) originated in Europe roughly thirty years before they came to America. Realism began in France‚ in the works of Balzac and‚ later‚ Flaubert‚ as a reaction against the libertarian excesses of romanticism in art and Napoleonic
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Since the literary recognition of ‘Lewis Carroll’‚ many adaptations of his novels both in prose and on screen have been created. The film ‘Alice in Wonderland’‚ directed and produced by American director Tim Burton‚ is a popular and recent appropriation of Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’. The characters‚ themes and values remain true to the original 18th century text‚ however several plot events and contextual elements of the novel are transformed in order to appeal to the 20th
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Franz Kafka’s Quest for an Unavailable God REVIEWED BY‚ Roz Spafford Sunday‚ April 5‚ 1998 THE CASTLE By Franz Kafka‚ translated by Mark Harman Schocken; 328 pages; Franz Kafka’s name has been appropriated as our century’s reigning adjective; ``Kafkaesque’’ is a word for which no adequate synonym exists. From the absurd circuitry of managed care to our Dilbertesque workplaces and the bizarre comic opera playing in Washington‚ the relevance of ``The Castle‚’’ Kafka’s para ble of bureaucracy gone
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