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Local colour, style of writing derived from the presentation of the features and peculiarities of a particular locality and its inhabitants. Although the term local colour can be applied to any type of writing, it is used almost exclusively to describe a kind of American literature that in its.
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Tall tale, narrative that depicts the wild adventures of...
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18. Okt. 2017 · Chapter © 2016. Nineteenth-century local-colour literature is a signal instance of a meta-national literary movement that circulated at the margins of dominant cultural capitals and focused on regional, rural , largely oral and premodern cultures far from the metropoles.
- Josephine Donovan
- Josephine.Donovan@umit.maine.edu
- 2017
Vor 3 Tagen · In local-color literature one finds the dual influence of romanticism and realism, since the author frequently looks away from ordinary life to distant lands, strange customs, or exotic scenes, but retains through minute detail a sense of fidelity and accuracy of description.
Local Color Fiction (Lokalkolorit-Bewegung) ist ein Zweig der US-amerikanischen Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts, die Regionaltypisches mit großer Detailtreue darstellte und damit neue sozialrealistische, naturalistische und sozialkritische Gestaltungselemente in die Literatur einbrachte, ohne auf sozialromantische und sentimentale Motive zu ...
Characteristics. Regional writers. References. Bibliography. American literary regionalism, often used interchangeably with the term " local color ", is a style or genre of writing in the United States that gained popularity in the mid-to-late 19th century and early 20th century.
Local color or regional literature is fiction and poetry that focuses on the characters, dialect, customs, topography, and other features particular to a specific region. Influenced by Southwestern and Down East humor, between the Civil War and the end of the nineteenth century this mode of writing became dominant in American literature.
Local Color writing can be seen as a transitional type of writing that took American literature away from the Romantic style and more firmly into the Realistic style. The characters are more realistically drawn, with very human, sometimes ignoble, traits: they swear, speak in regional dialect, swat flies away from their faces, and make mistakes ...
