Эпоха Критического реализма в американской литературе
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CRITICAL REALISM American Literature in the Second Half of the 19th century and the Beginning of the 20th century

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Critical realism as a trend in American literature developed after the Civil War. The Civil War was fought between the Northern and the Southern states from 1861-1865.

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The most outstanding American realists were 1.Mark Twain, 2.O . Henry, 3.Jack London .

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Mark Twain O . Henry Jack London

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The romanticists wrote their stories about … ideal individuals (through which they showed their emotions)

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The realists understood that the people should be shown as a whole . They saw man on the background of social conflicts of the day and explained human feelings in relation to this background.

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Mark Twain depicted common American people with great sympathy and humor.

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Jack London and O. Henry created typical characters of the American common people — farmers, workers, intellectuals. They revealed the truth of American life in their works.

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American critical realism developed in contact with European realism. The works of Balzac, Gogol, Turgenev and Tolstoy influenced it greatly.

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But American realism enriched world realism by introducing such problems as social injustice and Negro and Indian questions. American writers using the methods of critical realism created great works of art.

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Mark Twain (1835-1910) Mark Twain is the pen-name of the Samuel Langhorne Clemens, one of the greatest representatives of American critical realism of the second half of the 19th century. He is known as a great humorist and satirist.