Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

dirty realism

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.63 in modern English

Syllables: dirty re-al-ism
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"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.”"

Etymology

Coined by Bill Buford of Granta magazine in 1983.

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does dirty realism mean?: A North American literary movement that depicts seamy or mundane aspects of ordinary life in spare, unadorned language.
Where does dirty realism come from?: Coined by Bill Buford of Granta magazine in 1983.

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