American Literature / Unit 2 AML 0125 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Realism, Naturalism, Romance: Three Modes, Not Three Periods
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The idea
Realism represents ordinary life as it is lived. Naturalism adds a thesis, that heredity and environment decide a life. Romance departs from the probable for a truth of the heart. Each names a period in American literature and also a mode a writer may choose in any period.
In practice
As lived, as determined, as imagined.
Where people slip
These are modes first and periods second.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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