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dirty realism, n. Literary Criticism.
Brit. |ˌdəːti ˈrɪəlɪz(ə)m|, U.S. |ˌdərdi ˈriəˌlɪz(ə)m|
[‹ dirty adj. + realism n.]
A literary style which attempts a gritty and unidealized depiction of contemporary life; (in later use) spec. a genre of (chiefly U.S.) fiction concerned with the experiences of the disaffected or disadvantaged, characterized by downbeat stories esp. of small-town life, written in stark, direct (though often highly stylized) language, sometimes intended to shock. Also in extended use.
In quot. 1931, prob. not as a fixed collocation; the reference is to Elizabeth Hamilton's novel The Cottagers of Glenburnie (1808), described in the quoted source as ‘a realistic picture of the filthier side of life among small farmers’.
1931H. W. Thompson Sc. Man of Feeling xiii. 361 Galt stands on ground between the dirty realism of Mrs. Hamilton and the romantic sentimentalism of Goldsmith. 1983B. Buford in Granta No. 8. 4 This is a curious, dirty realism about the belly-side of contemporary life, but it is realism so stylized and particularized—so insistently informed by a discomforting and sometimes elusive irony—that it makes the more traditional realistic novels..seem ornate, even baroque in comparison. 1990Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 18 Nov. 28/3 American writer Richard Ford has been repeatedly bracketed with his compatriot, the late Raymond Carver,..as guru of ‘dirty realism’, a condition akin to the reverse of the American dream. 1998Newsday (Electronic ed.) 16 Aug. The program's tales of life inside the walls of the fictional Oswald Penitentiary have all the features of ‘alternative TV’—potty-mouthed dialogue, nudity, drugs, rape, masturbation and murder. ‘Oz’ typifies the new dirty realism of cable TV. 2002Sunday Times (Nexis) 14 Apr. These are post-modern times when you need to be savagely ironic and do dirty realism and urban angst and fear and loathing or the multicultural thing. |