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Literature
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05/03/2015

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Realism
Definition
A literary movement of the last of the 19th century which promoted writing that gives the impression of accurately recording & faithfully refelcting actual, comtemporary life.
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Deism
Definition

Belief in a RATIONAL universe created by a God who does not intervene in human affairs

 

Traditional religion-no place in human life

 

World designed by a CREATOR according to a physical plan discoverable through reason & science

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Verisimilitude
Definition

Faithful representation of actual life

 

Contemporary settings

 

Plausible, often banal events

 

Commonplace details

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Determism
Definition

Nature as an indifferent to the needs, desires of humanity

 

All human behavior is the result of heredity, environment, & physical drives

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Who wrote Tartuffe?
Definition
Moliere
Term
Who wrote Deerslayer?
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Cooper
Term
Who wrote The Dead?
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James Joyce
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Who wrote A Simple Heart?
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Flaubert
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Who wrote Maggie: A girl of the streets?
Definition
Stephen Crane
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Romanticism
Definition
A literary movement from late 18th to mid-19th centuries that was characterized by a heightened interest in nature and in the past and an emphasis on the power of imagination
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