Influence_Of_Realism_On_Literature

Influence Of Realism On Literature Influence of Realism on Literature After World War I, American people and the authors among them were left disillusioned by the effects that war had on their society. America needed a literature that would explain what had happened and what was happening to their society. American writers turned to what is now known as modernism. The influence of 19th Century realism and naturalism and their truthful representation of American life and people was evident in post World War I modernism. This paper will try to prove this by presenting the basic ideas and of these literary genres, literary examples of each, and then make connections between the two literary movements. Realism Modernism not only depicted American society after World War I accurately and unbiasedly, but also tried to find the solutions brought upon by the suffering created by the war (Elliott 705). The realistic movement of the late 19th century saw authors accurately depict life and it’s problems. Realists attempted to “give a comprehensive picture of modern life” (Elliott 502) by presenting the society, american, life, war, literature, realists, world, modernism, literary, america, modernists, both, problems, culture, authors, realism, people, new, naturalism, elliott, change, bradley, wrote, writers, two, same, realistic, picture, james, hemingway, different, compton’s, after, about, york