Questions and Answers:Give a brief answer to each of the following questions in English.What are the characteristics of Henry James’s realism from the perspective of psychological emphasis.

Questions and Answers:Give a brief answer to each of the following questions in English.What are the characteristics of Henry James’s realism from the perspective of psychological emphasis.

PSYCHOLOGICAL REALISM: JAMES’S REALISM IS CHARACTERIZED BY HIS PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACH TO HIS SUBJECT MATTER. HIS FICTIONAL WORLD IS CONCERNED MORE WITH THE INNER LIFE OF HUMAN BEINGS THAN WITH OVERT HUMAN ACTIONS. HIS BEST AND MOST MATURE WORKS WILL RENDER THE DRAMA OF INDIVIDUAL CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONVEY THE MOMENT-TO-MOMENT SENSE OF HUMAN EXPERIENCE AS BEWILDERMENT AND DISCOVERY. AND WE OBSERVE PEOPLE AND EVENTS FILTERING THROUGH THE INDIVIDUAL CONSCIOUSNESS AND PARTICIPATE IN HIS EXPERIENCE. THIS EMPHASIS ON PSYCHOLOGY AND ON THE HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS PROVES TO BE A BIG BREAKTHROUGH IN NOVEL WRITING AND HAS GREAT INFLUENCE ON THE COMING GENERATIONS. JAMES IS GENERALLY REGARDED AS THE FORERUNNER OF THE 20TH CENTURY “STREAM-OF-CONSCIOUSNESS” NOVELS AND THE FOUNDER OF PSYCHOLOGICAL REALISM.

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