A cultural organisation recently asked me to take part in a debate on the question: "Is a true literary naturalism possible or even desirable?" The debate took place in France, where they like ...

Realists try to portray life through literature in all its pleasure and pain, Crisler said. The book also portrays literary naturalism, a subset of American realism, Crisler said.

The present paper attempts to read Gissing's New Grub Street as the product of a crisis in the British literary system towards the end of the nineteenth century. This crisis is traced in both the ...

That visual realism is paralleled by naturalism in literature, theatre or cinema, especially ‘a style of novel in which reality was presented without moral judgment’, such as ‘that unnecessarily ...

Clas Zilliacus, Radical Naturalism: First-Person Documentary Literature, Comparative Literature, Vol. 31, No. 2 (Spring, 1979), pp. 97-112 ...