LITR 436 - American Realism and Naturalism

3 Credit(s)

Starts in the aftermath of the Civil War and considers the movement away from romanticism, the restraints upon character choice, the increased attention to middle class and lower class life, the development of psychological complexity in character, and the formalist techniques for representing mimesis, especially fragmentation and perspectivism. Yearly.

Prerequisite(s): LITR 200 or LITR 201, and LITR 300.