• American realism was an early 20th century idea in art, music and ‎literature
• Realism in American Literature, 1860-1890‎
• American Realism began as a reaction to and a rejection of ‎Romanticism
• The movement began as early as the 1830's
• ordinary speech in dialect--use of vernacular
• attempts to represent real life ‎
• literature of the common-place
• Pragmatism
• sociology and psychology
• ‎ Romanticism, with its emphasis on emotion, imagination, and the ‎individual
• ‎ Kate Chopin is a good representative of a literary movement called ‎realism
• A realist concerns himself with the here and now, centering his work ‎in his own time, dealing with common-place everyday events and ‎people,‎
• Realism is a literary idea in art that attempts to depict and define what ‎is true.‎
• one of the common themes and elements realism is ordinary speech ‎in dialect -- use of vernacular