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Common Themes and Elements in Realism
-Pragmatism
-literature of the common-place
-attempts to represent real life
-ordinary people--poor and middle class
-ordinary speech in dialect--use of vernacular
-recent or contemporary life
-subject matter presented in an unidealized, unsentimentalized way
-democratic function of literature
-social criticism--effect on audience is key
-presents indigenous American life
-importance of place--regionalism, "local color"
-sociology and psychology