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Frank Norris. Let us at the start make a distinction. Observe that one speaks of romanticism and not sentimentalism. One claims that the latter is as distinct from the former as is that other form of art which is called Realism.
Jul 12, 2023 · In the essay included here, “A Plea for Romantic Fiction,” Norris describes the Romance genre itself as a woman entering a house, imagining the intense, instructive dramas she would uncover if she were to abandon medieval swordplay and instead visit an average middle-class American home.
In the essay included here, “A Plea for Romantic Fiction,” Norris describes the Romance genre itself as a woman entering a house, imagining the intense, instructive dramas she would uncover if she were to abandon medieval swordplay and instead visit an average middle-class American home.
Jun 21, 2018 · Naturalism, as conceived by Norris, resolved the conflict between realism and romanticism by selecting the best from these two modes and by adding one constituent ignored by both. In his “Weekly Letter” to the Chicago American of August 3, 1901, he partially described this synthesis.
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May 17, 2023 · Romance has been often put upon and overburdened by being forced to bear the onus of abuse that by right should fall to sentiment; but the two should be kept very distinct, for a very high and illustrious place will be claimed for romance, while sentiment will be handed down the scullery stairs.
The reason that Norris was among these critics who considered Zola a romanticist is easily surmised.12 During the 1880s and 90s there were basically two schools of fiction - the realistic and the romantic - and writers were generally classified as belonging to one or the other. As an American, Norris naturally identified Howells,
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