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A 10 page research paper that the characteristics of realism, naturalism and moernism, and then discusses these characteristics and how they are demonstrated in three works that reflect each trend. These works are Bret Harte's "The Luck of Roaring Camp" (realism); Frank Norris' "A Deal in Wheat" (naturalism) and T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land (modernism). Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates.?? Realism, Naturalism, Modernism Research Compiled By
- May, 2010 properly! Realism, naturalism and modernism are three literary trends that scholars use
to describe the literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The following paper offer a description of the characteristics of each of these eras, and then discusses these
characteristics and how they are demonstrated in three works that reflect each trend. These works are Bret Hartes "The Luck of Roaring Camp" (realism); Frank Norris "A Deal in Wheat"
(naturalism) and T.S. Eliots The Waste Land (modernism). Realism Between 1860s and 1890, American writers reacted against the conventions of romantic literature with the trend towards realism, which has
been broadly defined as "the faithful representation of reality" or as "verisimilitude" (Campbell "Realism"). William Harmon and Hugh Holman, in their text A Handbook of Literature, sum up the differences
between the romantics, the naturalists and the realists by writing: Where romanticists transcend the immediate to find the ideal, and naturalists plumb the actual or superficial to find the scientific
laws that control its actions, realists center their attention to a remarkable degree on the immediate, the here and now, the specific action, and the verifiable consequence (Campbell "Realism").
Nevertheless, there are many scholars who have indicated that they perceive no clear difference between realism and naturalism. However, in general, whatever was "new,
interesting and roughly similar" in the writing that was produced in the 1870s and 1880s can be regarded as realism, while equally "new, interesting and roughly similar body of writing
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