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Sailing under false colors: naturalism revisited.(Critical essay)

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Date: 20070101
Author:Borghart, Pieter

ABSTRACT: The study of present-day scholarship on Naturalism and its existing definitions is followed by a comparative approach to such movement as an international phenomenon and with its inherent methological problems. Once a pragmatic solution is proposed, the author discusses the advantages accrued by a reconceptualization of Naturalism.

Keywords: literary theory, Naturalism, narratology, reconceptualization, science and literature, semiotics, Emile Zola

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