Word: realisme
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...attention of our readers to the continued evidence of poor taste on the part of the editors of Outing. "Harry's Career at Yale" has passed its fiftieth chapter and gives no signs of ceasing. We have heard of editors stopping the publication of stories on account of overdrawn realism or naturalism; it is well nigh time we were hearing of editors stopping the publication of stories on account of the greater sin of stupidity. The world has already had more than enough of "Harry" and his "Career" and of Mr. John Seymour Wood. To quote Mr. Barrett Wendell...
...essay on "George Eliot's Theory of Realism," is very interesting, especially in its comparison with the theories of Mr. Howell's and the modern school. It is a thorough piece of work and well-done. The dozen pages which follow it are occupied by "Bifurcation," a difficult thing to classify. It is apparently a story with occasional suggestions of a plot but in reality it is a discussion, chiefly religious, which ends with a sermon. There are two characters in it-one a minister-that would do good to the heart of a lover of complexity; the other...
...Apologist" is the most ambitious piece of prose in the number. Taking for his text some thoughts of Bourget, Mr. Hapgood indulges at some length in an analytical discussion of certain phases of realism of the century, of a certain literary unrest which produces heroes like that one of M. Bourget's who "rots in science, dimly feels his rottoness, defends it in syllogisms, and turns its foul breath on the purest flower in sight." For all this, Mr. Hapgood has a moral and comes to the conclusion that "our discontent with the conditions of our life...
...realism of modern art of a kind that is likely to be favorable to the finest artistic developments...
...fiction realism is the strongest. The movement has aimed to depict life by a minute description of objects. It soon became an art documentaries and degenerated into naturalism. The original desire of the French novelist was, by the description of exterior features to bring about in the reader the effect of the antecedents of which this feature is the consequent. But as two persons are unlikely to be affected in the same way by a phase of life, the novelist to retain a leadership was obliged to seek novelty, what is rare and curious. He soon turned to the abnormal...