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Meaning of "dirty realism" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DIRTY REALISM

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DIRTY REALISM

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Dirty realism is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DIRTY REALISM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Dirty realism

Dirty realism is a term coined by Bill Buford of Granta magazine to define a North American literary movement. Writers in this sub-category of realism are said to depict the seamier or more mundane aspects of ordinary life in spare, unadorned language. The term formed the title of the Summer 1983 edition of Granta magazine, for which Buford wrote an explanatory introduction: "Dirty realism is the fiction of a new generation of American authors. They write about the belly-side of contemporary life – a deserted husband, an unwed mother, a car thief, a pickpocket, a drug addict – but they write about it with a disturbing detachment, at times verging on comedy. Understated, ironic, sometimes savage, but insistently compassionate, these stories constitute a new voice in fiction." Sometimes considered a variety of Literary minimalism, Dirty realism is characterized by an economy with words and a focus on surface description. Writers working within the genre tend to avoid adverbs, extended metaphor and internal monologue, instead allowing objects and context to dictate meaning.

Definition of dirty realism in the English dictionary

The definition of dirty realism in the dictionary is a style of writing, originating in the US in the 1980s, which depicts in great detail the seamier or more mundane aspects of ordinary life.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DIRTY REALISM

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WORDS THAT END LIKE DIRTY REALISM

brutalism
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individualism
journalism
liberalism
literalism
materialism
metabolism
minimalism
nationalism
Orientalism
photojournalism
professionalism
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socialism
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Synonyms and antonyms of dirty realism in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «dirty realism» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DIRTY REALISM

Find out the translation of dirty realism to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of dirty realism from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «dirty realism» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

肮脏的现实主义
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

realismo sucio
570 millions of speakers

English

dirty realism
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

गंदा यथार्थवाद
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

الواقعية القذرة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

грязный реализм
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

realismo sujo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

নোংরা বাস্তবতা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

réalisme sale
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Realisme kotor
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

schmutzigen Realismus
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

汚れたリアリズム
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

더러운 리얼리즘
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Realisme reged
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

chủ nghĩa hiện thực bẩn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அழுக்கு யதார்த்தம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

गलिच्छ वास्तववाद
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Kirli gerçekçilik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

realismo sporco
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

brudny realizm
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

брудний реалізм
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

realism murdar
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

βρώμικο ρεαλισμό
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

vuil realisme
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

smutsig realism
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

dirty realisme
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of dirty realism

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DIRTY REALISM»

The term «dirty realism» is used very little and occupies the 182.191 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DIRTY REALISM» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about dirty realism

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DIRTY REALISM»

Discover the use of dirty realism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to dirty realism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Dirty Realism Duo: Charles Bukowski and Raymond Carver ...
In this experimental monograph (in the vein of D. H. Lawrence's Studies in Contemporary American Fiction), avante/pop literary critic Michael Hemmingson examines these dirty works of Bukowski and Carver through the lens of late twentieth ...
Michael Hemmingson, 2008
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Forth and Back: Translation, Dirty Realism, and the Spanish ...
Chapter Three What We Talk About When We Talk About Dirty Realism in Spain The El Pais feature that introduced a Spanish audience to the term dirty realism in October of 1986 anticipated Anagrama's publication that same month of ...
Cintia Santana, 2013
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Productive Postmodernism: Consuming Histories and Cultural ...
Investigates a broad range of contemporary fiction, film, and architecture to address the role of history in postmodern cultural productions.
John N. Duvall, 2012
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Literary Luxuries: American Writing at the End of the Millennium
... stage for a few brief years — followed by a return to a different sort of realism, minimalist realism or dirty realism or designer realism or lifestyle fiction. Lifestyle fiction is not merely a return to the modernist realism of the early sixties or a sort ...
Joe David Bellamy, 1995
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Generation X Rocks: Contemporary Peninsular Fiction, Film, ...
What We Talk About When We Talk About Dirty Realism in Spain Cintia Santana In recent decades, the object of literary studies (i.e. a once upon a time Canon) has come into question resulting in a foregrounding of the political valuations ...
Christine Henseler, Randolph D. Pope, 2007
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100 Must-Read American Novels: Discover Your Next Great Read...
(1986) Richard Ford is usually associated with the loose and ill-defined literary movement that was given the name of 'dirty realism' in the 1980s. Indeed he was editor of several of the collections of short stories which provided dirty realism ...
Nick Rennison, Ed Wood, 2010
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Theories of Literary Realism
Nothing would be easier, however, than to trace genetic realism in successive links — from Theodore Dreiser to twentieth-century American naturalism, from European neorealism to the "nouveau roman" and " dirty realism" — preferably rising ...
Dario Villanueva, 1997
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The Mourning After: Attending the Wake of Postmodernism
These include “critical realism,” “dirty realism,” “postmodern realism,” “neorealism ,” “deep realism,” “spectacle realism,” “fiduciary realism,” “hyper-realism,” and, most famously, “hysterical realism.”3 However, none of these examples improves  ...
Neil Edward Brooks, Josh Toth, 2007
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Film England: Culturally English Filmmaking Since the 1990s
Another aspect of this dirty realism in the early modern period is the exploration of the teeming, bustling early modern metropolis. Thus Shakespeare in Love, To Kill a King, Restoration, Stage Beauty, The Libertine and Plunkett & Macleane all  ...
Andrew Higson, 2011
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Jameson on Jameson: Conversations on Cultural Marxism
But then, in my view, dirty realism, Koolhaas, if you prefer, emerges as the term in which there is a certain consent to replication — at least the way in which the individual microcosm replicates the macrocosm — but, at the same time, there is a ...
Fredric Jameson, Ian Buchanan, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DIRTY REALISM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term dirty realism is used in the context of the following news items.
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Carson McCullers: trying to understand why love is so difficult…
A true Southern eccentric, her work bears the earmarks both of Southern Gothic and of what would later come to be called dirty realism. At the ... «Scholars and Rogues, Jul 15»
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TV Review- True Detective, Series 2 – First Impressions
Just as the southern gothic genre inspired TD's narrative story line and philosophical based conversations, Ellroy and Carver – dirty realism ... «Impact Magazine, Jun 15»
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We Are All Neoliberals Now: The New Genre of Plastic Realism in …
... Bobbie Anne Mason, Richard Ford, Mary Robison, Amy Hempel, Tobias Wolff, and others generally grouped under the rubric of dirty realism. «Huffington Post, Jun 15»
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What do you recommend?
“Miles from Nowhere by Nami Mun. These stories are dirty realism but fantastic too. Like Denis Johnson, she can get you laughing about things ... «Miami Herald, Jun 15»
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Chuck Palahniuk finds new inspiration in 'Fight Club'
I write what you'd call dirty realism. To write 'Expedition' in that over-the-top, fake Gothic way was really challenging." More stories. Other stories ... «SunHerald.com, Jun 15»
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Harry Crews's A Feast of Snakes: as dirty as realism gets…
... of the literary style called dirty realism. He certainly provides a powerful example of SouthernGothic entertainment, too, as A Feast of Snakes, ... «Scholars and Rogues, Jun 15»
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After becoming part of the culture, author finds inspiration in 'Fight …
I write what you'd call dirty realism. To write 'Expedition' in that over-the-top, fake Gothic way was really challenging.” Other stories in “Make ... «Duluth News Tribune, May 15»
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Chuck Palahniuk breaks the first rule of 'Fight Club'
Rather than write that dirty realism of someone at a lousy job, trying to break out and achieve something, I wanted to add a mythic profundity.". «SouthFlorida.com, May 15»
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Paul O'Reilly The Girl Missing From the Window
This is dirty realism, 2015 style, and every permutation of horror is plausible in our country today. This is equally the case in the story The Love ... «RTE.ie, May 15»
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'The Casual Vacancy': J.K. Rowling Gets Down and Dirty
... attempt to put aside Harry Potter fantasy and create a grim experiment that blends dirty realism into the small-town satires of Angela Thirkill. «Yahoo News, Apr 15»

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