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Naturalism   /nˈætʃərəlˌɪzəm/  /nˈætʃrəlˌɪzəm/   Listen
Naturalism

noun
1.
(philosophy) the doctrine that the world can be understood in scientific terms without recourse to spiritual or supernatural explanations.
2.
An artistic movement in 19th century France; artists and writers strove for detailed realistic and factual description.  Synonym: realism.





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"Naturalism" Quotes from Famous Books



... tragical. The entire romantic school was born from him, Victor Hugo and George Sand, Theophile Gautier who draws from the French tongue resources unequalled in wealth and colour, and even M. Zola himself, whose naturalism, after all, is but the last form and, as it were, the end of romanticism, since it would be difficult to discover in him any characteristic that did not exist, as a germ at ...
— An Iceland Fisherman • Pierre Loti
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... composed on the principle that everything is permissible except the tame and the conventional. The productions of these young innovators differed widely from one another, but they had a common note in their vehement would-be naturalism. There were over-wrought pictures of daring sin and terrible punishment; novels and plays laying bare the misere of the social conflict; tragedies of insurgent passion at war with conventional ideas; of true love crossed ...
— The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller • Calvin Thomas
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... will get in some day, you may be sure," he answered. "There is no spirit higher and stronger than the spirit of naturalism in man; and in time, when a few prejudices have died away and mawkish sentiment has been worn threadbare, Zola will be enrolled as the first of the French Academicians, with even more honors than if he had succeeded in the beginning. That is ...
— Ziska - The Problem of a Wicked Soul • Marie Corelli
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... delicate in childhood, and the stage of hardy naturalism which interposes itself between tender juvenility and the birth of self-consciousness did not in his case last long enough to establish his frame in the vigour to which it was tending. There was nothing sickly about ...
— A Life's Morning • George Gissing
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... not enough barely to tolerate as a poetical license that which is, in truth, the essence of all poetry. The introduction of the chorus would be the last and decisive step; and if it only served this end, namely, to declare open and honorable warfare against naturalism in art, it would be for us a living wall which tragedy had drawn around herself, to guard her from contact with the world of reality, and maintain her own ideal soil, her ...
— The Works of Frederich Schiller in English • Frederich Schiller
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