Murder, betrayal, theft, death. Nb! Characters are forced to these by circumstances. Men lost in despair. Existentsialism-general problem of existence. Always a subject of literature. Entered the realm of philosophy. A merging of philosophy and literature. Albert camus, jean paul sartre-ideas through fiction. Iris Murdoch-philosopher by education. Purpose of novel: to analyse ideas. Aritficial fictional world. Characters-express ideas. Parable, allegory, fable. Existentsialist-born lonely. Loneliness, impossibility of communication even in most intimate moments. Tragedy of lovers, friends. Murdoch: we cast a verbal net over the other. We all speak a different language. Antonioni ,,eclipse". Realism in the visual arts and literature refers to the general attempt to depict subjects as they are considered to exist in third person objective reality, without embellishment or interpretation and "in accordance with secular, empirical rules. 10
native americans, most tribes int he south were exterminated. 5. Awareness and acceptance of evil, southereners were convinced that evil is a part of the world and man himself is evil. 6. The southern scene is heavily charged with atmosphere of decade, destruction and frustration. 7. Southern writers are occupied with idiots and perverts. People are alienated anyway. But when one is different, then alienation is absolute. This idea is existentsialist. 8. Violence. Comes in two forms, its human violence, such as murder, rape, mutulation, slave abuse, arson. Natural violence, flood, drought-period of dry weather, storms and so on. 9. Characterized by the love of style of thetoric. Like true modernists they liked to experiment with syntex and so on .10. literary method is the combination is modernism and symbolic naturalism. They experiment with language but also every concrete physical detail becomes symbolic. And has