Word: realism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...April Mopes; A Condensed Novel in Eight Spasms,' is an attempted parody on Howell's "April Hopes." It is lacking in wit and literary value, and descends to passages of more than questionable tastes. A few flashes of successful realism do not redeem it from a position far below the Advocate's former standard...
...Lloyd McKim Garrison lectured last evening before the Conference Franchise on "Realism," as exemplified in La Terre, by Emil Zola. He said in brief that the code of morals depicted was far from that which exists, and which one would wish for. He further said that the demands for books of this sort was due to the low tastes in some classes, caused in part by the literature of the day, but that such a book would have no effect on the general tone of the people. The question was commented upon from the floor, then the Conference adjourned...
...meeting of the Conference Francaise tonight Lloyd McKim Garrison, L. S., will speak on "Realism...
...also tried to face this nineteenth century world boldly; and, whatever we may think of his literary style, his spirit is genuine. It is said that the modern spirit is hostile to art and that the tyranny of science drives poetry out of existence. But poetry is based on realism, and the poet should take the cold facts of science and humanize them. Human sentiment should be substituted for the critical verse now in vogue. The human mind has in this century again burst its bonds, as it did just before the Renaissance. It cannot be possible that the "almighty...
...recognition of objective relations. Now I have no doubt that all of the young men of Harvard whom the author addressed especially, have hitherto had the impression that some of the forms of idealism are as consistent with the scientific method, at least as ordinarily defined, as either realism or dualism can be. Objectivity is not necessarily material. But if we err on this point, we are willing to be corrected, in fact stand in need of correction...