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Ameerika Kirjandus
30.01.13
Naturalism
· France, Emile Zola
· Put down his theory in 1879: Le Roman Experimental, attempt to explain the
development of human society throuch biological laws
· Outlook is deterministic, pessimistic, fatalistic (fate or biology)
· Man as an animal-clever than other beasts, still explainable within the framework
· Man is not a free agent, is govern by something
· Unable to determine his own faith
· Hereditary
· Naturalists tried to apply in fiction the processes of natural sciences
· Writers task is to record facts, systems of behaviour, living conditions, never revealing
any natural unbiased (completely natural)
· Point of view: amoral-outside the category of morality, neither good or bad
· Naturalist find it absurd to blame the wicked. These criminals are doing what nature,
environment, their unconscious tells them to do. Naturalists do not ...