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    This document provides an overview of realism in literature including its key characteristics and how it differs from romanticism. Realism aims to depict everyday life objectively without idealization, focusing on common people and real situations. It developed after the Civil War in contrast to romanticism's emphasis on imagination, emotion, and supernatural themes. Regionalism and local color are forms of realism that emphasize specific geographical settings and dialects. Tall tales, like Mark Twain's "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," use exaggeration, understatement and local color for amusement. Twain took his pen name from the river term "mark twain" meaning safe waters.

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    This document provides an overview of realism in literature including its key characteristics and how it differs from romanticism. Realism aims to depict everyday life objectively without idealization, focusing on common people and real situations. It developed after the Civil War in contrast to romanticism's emphasis on imagination, emotion, and supernatural themes. Regionalism and local color are forms of realism that emphasize specific geographical settings and dialects. Tall tales, like Mark Twain's "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," use exaggeration, understatement and local color for amusement. Twain took his pen name from the river term "mark twain" meaning safe waters.

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    Realism

    Regionalism and Local Color


    What is Realism?

    Realism is a style of writing that developed


    after the Civil War and that attempts to depict
    everyday life without idealizing or romanticizing
    it.
    Realism v. Romanticism

    Realism Romanticism
    • Emphasizes objectivity • Emphasizes imagination and
    • Depicts common, everyday emotion
    people • Depicts characters as other-
    • Focuses on real-life situations worldly and different
    • Focuses on exotic, supernatural,
    imaginary worlds
    Realists

    The realists developed their plots and characters based on


    their observations of ordinary, everyday life, and readers
    enjoyed realist fiction because they saw their own struggles
    in print. In contrast, the public lost their taste for the slow
    pace, allegory, and symbolism of the romantic writers.
    Regionalism
    • Regionalism is a form of realism that emphasizes a specific geographic
    setting and reproduces the speech, behavior, and manners of the
    people who live in that region.

    What makes a region distinctive? What makes our area different


    from the rest of Texas? How is Denton distinctive?
    Local Color – What Is It?
    • form of realism
    • emphasizes a specific geographic region
    • includes setting, dress, mannerisms, and local dialect
    • social and economic conditions of the mining camps and boom towns
    are key elements in local color
    • characters speak colloquially, in dialect
    • dialect mimics the local speech through misspellings, grammatical
    errors, and long, loose sentences
    Tall Tale – Mark Twain
    A tall tale is a folk tale with exaggerated characters and
    events. It generally aims to fool or amuse the reader using
    the following devices.
    • Exaggeration
    • Understatement
    • Local Color
    - setting – California mining camp
    - dialect

    “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,”


    page 684

    Mark Twain in 1871


    “Clemens” to “Twain” - How Did That Happen?

    How did Samuel Langhorne Clemens become Mark Twain?


    An important part of a river pilot's craft is knowing the
    waters and depths, which, for the mighty Mississippi and
    her reefs, snags, and sand bars, are ever changing. To “mark
    twain” is to sound the depths and deem them safe enough
    for a steamboat’s passage.
    Clemens adopted the term as his pen name in 1863.

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