Naturalism
A kind of literary and artistic thought. Formed in the second half of the nineteenth century. Asked to observe a cooling-off artists, the mere record of work in pursuit of absolute objectivity and accuracy, and refusing to work in the analysis, evaluation, but also trying to use the laws of natural science in particular to explain the laws of biology and human society, they often neglect things summed up the essence of art.
"Naturalist" This method of art and creative ideas in the 19th century in Western Europe during the 60 literary, popular in the 19th century on behalf of七八十年. It is the theoretical basis of empirical Kongde Austrian and mechanical materialism prevalent at the time of experimental science. Taine on the French literary critic in 1858 described the first time in literature on the meaning of naturalism: According to the author's observation of reality, in accordance with the scientific method of life is consistent with the actual description. French writer, naturalist theorists On the naturalist Zola said: "Do not exaggerate here, do not stress that as long as the fact that commendable and worthy of贬黜fact.
The author is not a moralist, but an autopsy, and he just say he was found inside the human body what is enough. "Zola advocated a scientific experiment to prove that the laws of nature and social laws, and to clarify the genetic truth of all, the novelist, the tasks and responsibilities of doctors equate. Naturalist artists in accordance with the spirit of social Darwinism, the struggle for survival, as well as other biological laws to explain social conflict. Naturalistic Realism artist rejected the principle of typification, the art pieces of life into the camera, so as to maintain the period of life the nuances of the smallest. Engels
Naturalism in the criticism, said that Balzac's social realism and more than all the "past, present and future of Zola."
Literary and artistic creation of a tendency. As a creative method, rejection on the one hand, natural and romantic imagination, exaggeration, subjective factors such as the Lyric, on the other hand, the neglect of real-life realism typical of a general, and the pursuit of absolute objectivity, advocating simply describe nature, focusing on the reality the surface of life-like portrayal of record, and in particular the laws of nature is an attempt to explain the laws of biology and human society. In literature and art in order to "in accordance with the way things have to copy" as a starting point and create a natural tendency is inclined to the same realism as a long history of creativity.
However, as a more conscious, with the modern meaning of the literary and artistic genre, naturalism is the second half of the 19th century to early 20th century, the rise in France, and then spread to some European countries, and cultural and artistic impact on many sectors.
American naturalist literature the process of industrialization as the United States, as well as the formation of post-industrial society and the occurrence and transmission in the United States occupies an important position in the history of literature. The study of natural and important to the United States, the authors of the study, retrospective in the United States the process of industrialization and changing social values of heritage in the 20th century with the plastic, revealing the core values of modern American society's deep-rooted problems, and explore its industrialization and post - industrialization process of the complex cultural patterns, social psychology and the history of individual behavior change.
As the U.S. continued to deepen the process of industrialization, the original agricultural civilization harmony calm was broken by the beginning of "a small village far away," was later transformed into the memories of rural life and lament the helplessness; idyllic and idealized the "gold-plated and in rural areas "the values of indifference and fear of being" natural evil theory "replaced, and gradually lead to the later literature of natural determinism and pessimism.
In short, the naturalist literature in the late 19th century the rise of the United States is not accidental, a variety of social and cultural factors is the product of the interaction is the process of industrialization during the period of transformation in the culture of a particular ideology, and is accustomed to the value system of the agricultural civilization of the Americans face the new industrial civilization generated confusion and thinking, but also U.S. farmers to gradually adapt to industrial civilization in the process of psychological shock and loss of the normal performance behavior.