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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionJack London is generally regarded as a master of naturalistic fiction. As such, his stories deal with the larger assumptions of naturalism that are based on both Darwinism and Marxism. In London's fiction humanity is...
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From: The Afro-American Novel and Its Tradition, Bernard W. Bell[(essay date 1987) In the following excerpt from a chapter entitled "Richard Wright and the Triumph of Naturalism" in his full-length study of the history of the African-American novel, Bell claims that Petry moves...
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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionSinclair Ross is one of Canada's best-known prairie realists. His novels and short stories present nature as a force beyond human control, one that reduces us to our most elemental selves as we struggle to survive. Lines...
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From: Studies in American Fiction[(essay date spring 1995) In the following essay, Derrick analyzes Sinclair's use of naturalism in order to explicate the gender roles in The Jungle.] American naturalism owes much of its contemporary power to the...
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From: Twisted From the Ordinary: Essays on American Literary Naturalism[(essay date 2003) In the following essay, Schierenbeck analyzes Norris's use of the "clinical gaze" in McTeague, arguing that the novel "highlights the privileged position of the naturalist author" and depicts the...
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From: Journal of Modern Literature[(essay date summer 2002) In the following essay, Pease considers Jack London's Call of the Wild within the context of American literary Naturalism.] Literary naturalism and romance have recently undergone a change in...
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From: American Literary Realism[In the following essay, McElrath explores Norris's satirical depiction of philosophical views in “The Puppets and the Puppy.”] A good deal has been written about Frank Norris' philosophy. Since the turn of the...
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From:Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (Vol. 160. )WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR:Courtmartialed [as Clarke Fitch] (juvenile novel) 1898Springtime and Harvest: A Romance (novel) 1901; also published as King Midas: A Romance, 1901The Journal of Arthur Stirling (novel) 1903Prince...
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From: Modern Fiction Studies[(essay date autumn 1959) In the following essay, Buitenhuis discusses "The Open Boat" as existentialist fiction, contending that "no story of Crane more profoundly embodies within its structure, style, and symbolism the...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)Stephen Crane was a descendant of Methodist ministers and of Revolutionary soldiers. One ancestor was a founder of the city of Newark, New Jersey; a grandfather was a bishop and founder of Syracuse University. His father...
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From:Feminist WritersIn 1971 Harriette Arnow's The Dollmaker would be praised by Joyce Carol Oates as "our most unpretentious American masterpiece." Yet this critical acclaim was long overdue, coming nearly 15 years after the novel's initial...
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From: Naturalism in American Fiction: The Classic Phase[(essay date 1984) In the following essay, Condor outlines Stephen Crane's naturalistic vision in "The Open Boat" and "The Blue Hotel."] "The Open Boat" "The Open Boat" is the center of the Crane canon and the...
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From: The Midwest Quarterly[(essay date October 1962) In the following essay, Metzger examines the realistic elements in "The Open Boat."] There is some argument among critics over the question of whether Stephen Crane's fiction is classically...
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From: Jack London Newsletter[In the following essay, Gershenowitz defends the authority of Jack London as a naturalist with respect to Roosevelt's criticism of him as a “Nature-Faker.”] The controversy between President Theodore Roosevelt and...
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From:Reference Guide to World Literature (2nd ed.)Urbane, erudite and eminently civilized, Anatole France was generally considered at the turn of this century to be the foremost contemporary French novelist and man of letters. To an extent seldom found in the career of...
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From: Critical Essays on Jack London[(essay date 1983) In the following essay, Wilcox assesses the extent of Jack London's literary naturalism through an examination of his The Son of the Wolf and The God of His Fathers.] Two problems arise from the...
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From: Modern Fiction Studies[(essay date summer 1957) In the following essay, Cox offers an analysis of "The Blue Hotel" to illustrate his thesis that Stephen Crane is more of a symbolist than a naturalist.] The limitations of labels are less...
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From: Sexualizing Power in Naturalism: Theodore Dreiser and Frederick Philip Grove[(essay date 1994) In the following excerpt, Gammel examines the Freudian perspective on sexuality represented by "Emanuela," suggesting that the sketch demonstrates the normalization of gender inherent in naturalistic...
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From: The American Humorist: Conscience of the Twentieth CenturyIn his nonfictional essays Thurber sometimes wears the mask of the same figure who cowers in his fiction, with the minor difference that the Little Man of the essays often writes for a living. As a writer, he may easily...
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From: Culture, Genre, and Literary Vocation: Selected Essays on American Literature[(essay date 2001) In the following essay, Bell frames an analysis of Native Son within Ralph Ellison's and James Baldwin's evolving reactions to the novel and their aversion to naturalistic "protest" literature.] In...