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9 mag 2024 · William Dean Howells (born March 1, 1837, Martins Ferry, Ohio, U.S.—died May 11, 1920, New York City) was a U.S. novelist and critic, the dean of late 19th-century American letters, the champion of literary realism, and the close friend and adviser of Mark Twain and Henry James.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
2 giorni fa · New Hollywood. The New Hollywood, Hollywood Renaissance, American New Wave, or New American Cinema (not to be confused with the New American Cinema of the 1960s that was part of avant-garde underground cinema ), was a movement in American film history from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s, when a new generation of filmmakers came to prominence.
- United States
- Mid-1960s to early 1980s
1 giorno fa · American literature is literature written or produced in the United States and in the colonies that preceded it. The American literary tradition is part of the broader tradition of English-language literature, but also includes literature produced in the United States in languages other than English.
2 giorni fa · John Griffith Chaney (January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916), better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing.
8 mag 2024 · realism, in the arts, the accurate, detailed, unembellished depiction of nature or of contemporary life. Realism rejects imaginative idealization in favour of a close observation of outward appearances. As such, realism in its broad sense has comprised many artistic currents in different civilizations
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
11 mag 2024 · Edward Hopper (born July 22, 1882, Nyack, N.Y., U.S.—died May 15, 1967, New York City) was an American painter whose realistic depictions of everyday urban scenes shock the viewer into recognition of the strangeness of familiar surroundings. He strongly influenced the Pop art and New Realist painters of the 1960s and 1970s.
25 apr 2024 · American realism was an early 20th-century idea in art, music and literature that showed through these different types of work, reflections of the time period. These works of literature depicted a contemporary view of what was happening; an attempt at defining what was real.
