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dirty realism

noun

Etymology

Coined by Bill Buford of Granta magazine in 1983.

Definitions

  1. A North American literary movement that depicts seamy or mundane aspects of ordinary life…

    A North American literary movement that depicts seamy or mundane aspects of ordinary life in spare, unadorned language.

    • It was Maryann Burk Carver who won the bread in those early years while Ray drank, fished, went to school and began writing the stories that a generation of critics and teachers would miscategorize as “minimalism” or “dirty realism.”

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA