CONTENTS
CONTENTS 1
INTRODUCTION 2
INTRODUCTION 4
Characteristics of naturalism 4
1.Influence of Naturalism on American literature 6
2.Zola's work and naturalism 10
3.Ancient and medieval philosophy 16
4. Modern philosophy 18
CONCLUSION 21
GLOSSARY 24
REFERENCES 26
INTRODUCTION 2
1. Influence of Naturalism on American literature 6
2. Zola's work and naturalism 10
3.Ancient and medieval philosophy 16
4. Modern philosophy 18
CONCLUSION 21
GLOSSARY 24
REFERENCES 26
INTRODUCTION
Naturalism was first proposed and formulated
by French novelist Emile Zola, and it was introduced to America by American novelist Frank Norris. It is a new and harsher realism. It is a theory in literature emphasizing scientific observation of life without idealism or avoidance of the ugly. American literature naturalists dismissed the validity of comforting moral truths. They attempted to achieve extreme objectivity and frankness, presenting characters of low social and economic classes who were dominated by their environment and heredity. The pessimism and deterministic ideas of naturalism pervaded the works of
such writers as Stephen Crane, Frank Norris,
Jack London, Henry Adams,
Theodore Dreiser, and Hemingway etc. This essay intends to deal with the application of naturalism in American literature and thereby seeks a broader understanding of naturalist literature in general.
The relevance of research. At present, the study of the style
of naturalism is relevant, since it is important to realize all the harmfulness and falsity of judgments that art,
including literature, supposedly rises above class contradictions and is a sphere of human activity. The style of naturalism arose under the influence of significant successes in the natural sciences, the methodology of which was clearly opposed to non-scientific methods of cognition.
