American Realism

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Perception

luonut Joerg Bauer

Chapter 29

luonut Simon Rogers

MAIIN The Long Term Causes of WWI (Italy)

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MAGIC REALISM

luonut deborag garro

American Realism

Themes

hardly uses an omniscient narrator

realistic, unpersonal diction

written for the growing middle class

emphasis on verisimilitude

Authors

Stephan Crane

The Open Boat

Red Badge of Courage

war correspondent

eastern writer

Ambrose Bierce

An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge

wrote nonfiction essays and war literature

colonel in union army

Mark Twain

Books

Tom Sawyer

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

sorrows in life produce humor

first to use colloquialism

father of American novel

Causes

rejection of romantisism

western frontier had been conquered

civil war opened eyes to true cruelty

wanted to record everyday humans to capture the essence standardization was destroying

changes to the landscape caused by the industrial revolution

fast immagration to crowded cities by Europeans