Ameerika kirjandus alates I maailmasõjast kuni tänapäevani.
the literature method no 1 in america
· Naturalism appealed American authors because they found it very right to describe
what was going on in the turn of century in America
· They wanted something fresh, new
· They were disgusted by romantics
· Showed the harsh tone in moral life
· Refleced the development of science
· Period of intense urbanisation, the city is in the center of the novel, often
· New characters were businessmen, salesman, immigants, poor farmers
· These characters were in new settings, skyscrapers, departments store, apartment
building, ghetto, stockyard (cattle, cows were slaughtered), commercial trust
· Their world is not one of culture or high moral standards
· For these new writers controlling new american social experience
· Naturalists offered a view that questioned the belief that now was a conscious and
national being and happiness could in moral behaviour