附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 455-457) and index.
The novel and its future / George Parsons Lathrop -- Modern fiction / Charles Dudley Warner -- The art of fiction / Henry James -- A typical novel / Hamilton Wright Mabie -- Selections from the "Editor's study" / William Dean Howells -- Realism and romance / James Lane Allen -- Certain tendencies in current literature / Richard Watson Gilder -- The new battle of the books / George Pellew -- Selections from The ethics of literary art / Maurice Thompson -- Realism in literature and art / Clarence Darrow -- The progressive realism of American fiction / H.H. Boyesen -- Productive conditions of American literature / Hamlin Garland -- The new story-tellers and the doom of realism / William Roscoe Thayer -- Three essays on naturalism / Frank Norris -- The responsibilities of the novelist / Frank Norris -- True art speaks plainly / Theodore Dreiser -- The naturalism of Mr. Dreiser / Stuart P. Sherman -- The art of Theodeore Dresiser / Randolph Bourne -- William Dean Howells and the realism of the commonplace / V.L. Parrington -- Naturalism in American fiction / V.L. Parrington -- The opening struggle for realism / Alfred Kazin -- "Not men" : a natural history of American naturalism / Malcolm Cowley -- Reality in America / Lionel Trilling -- Some observations on naturalism, so called, in fiction / James T. Farrell -- Taine in America / Everett Carter -- New ideas in the novel / Charles C. Walcutt -- Norris historically viewed / Richard Chase -- Mark Twain and the earlier realism / Robert Falk -- American realism defined / Harold H. Kolb, Jr. -- "Realism" : toward a definition / Edwin H. Cady -- From document to symbol : Zola and American naturalism / Frederick J. Hoffman -- American literary naturalism : the example of Dreiser / Donald Pizer -- Realism / Alfred Habegger -- The country of the blue / Eric J. Sundquist -- Preface and casting out the outcast : naturalism and the brute / June Howard -- Realism and "Absent things in American life" / Amy Kaplan -- Black and whit
摘要:Donald Pizer presents the major critical discussions of American realism and naturalism from the beginnings of the movement in the 1870's to the present. He includes the most often cited discussions ranging from William Dean Howells, Henry James, and Frank Norris in the late nineteenth century to those by V.L. Parrington. Malcolm Cowley, and Lionel Trilling in the early twentieth century. To provide the full context for the effort to interpret the nature and significance of realism and naturalism during the periods when the movements were live issues on the critical scene, however, he also includes many uncollected essays. His selections since World War II reflect the major recent tendencies in academic criticism of the movements.
