Documents of Modern Literary Realism

Book Overview

Using selections by American, British, French, German, Russian, Scandinavian, Spanish, Portuguese, and South American critics and authors, Professor Becker illustrates how realism arose as a reaction to romanticism, and how the practitioners of realism developed conflicting ideas about the means they should use and the ends toward which they should strive. The selections are concerned mainly with prose, since, according to the author, prose fiction...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691623295
• ISBN13: 9780691623290
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 622 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.0" x 8.0"