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Realism Across the Globe (Volume E) Realism Literary Aims • truth without sentiment • democracy • middle- and workingclass issues • industrialization • city versus countryside • sensory experience • “beauty” Elements • • • • • • ordinary language omniscient or first-person narrator issues with plot, scenarios, endings “unvarnished truth telling” ethical dilemmas questions Darwinism and Naturalism • adaptation to one’s social environment • choice and human biochemistry • social profiling Capturing Reality Higuchi Ichiyō • Japanese realism • poor, marginal characters • city life and finance • speech, dialogue Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) • • • • • Nobel Prize (1913) polydidact multifaceted Indian realism school at Shantiniketan, 1901 • Rabindra-sangit Dostoevsky • “They call me a psychologist but it’s not true. I’m merely a realist in a higher sense, that is to say I describe all the depths of the human soul” (p. 635). • Russian Orthodox Church • 1821, Moscow • death sentence, exile • gambling, epilepsy Test Your Knowledge Though it spread quickly across the globe, and in some cases developed from local literary traditions, realism began primarily in which of the following? a. France and Russia b. Japan c. North America and Britain d. Britain and France Test Your Knowledge Realist fiction tended to feature which of the following? a. great heroes of the past b. the poor c. British kings d. mythic archetypes Test Your Knowledge Realist fiction tended to emphasize which of the following? a. transcendent experience b. spiritual awakening c. empirical reality d. sense and sensibility Test Your Knowledge The genre primarily associated with realism is: _________. a. drama b. poetry c. prose nonfiction d. the novel This concludes the Lecture PowerPoint presentation for The Norton Anthology of World Literature Visit the StudySpace at: http://wwnorton.com/studyspace For more learning resources, please visit the StudySpace site for The Norton Anthology Of World Literature.