ENGL 2025 Chapter : LITERARY DEVELOPMENT
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Grows out of realism and takes it to another extreme. Becomes experimental, writing based off of own experiences: whats happening now. Predominance of imagination over reason and formal rules (classicism) and over the sense of fact or the actual (realism) Sympathetic interest in the past, especially the medieval (gothic) Poetic diction in favor of a fresher language. Idealization of rural life; sympathy with animal life. Enthusiasm for the wild, irregular, or grotesque in. Nature and art; general enthusiasm for the uncivilized or natural . Position: the realists felt that romanticism was for the. Birds and were trying to create something more realistic and more in touch . Central issue of life is ethical (issues of conduct) Caused to praise characterization as the center of the novel. Concerned with the effect of action on character (cause and effect) Explored psychology (henry james, father of the psychological novel) Belief in fact as the way to truth.
