regionalism late 1800s
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Regionalism Late 1800s. Preview. Read p. 619 in your textbook. You have 4 minutes. . Huge Regionalist Writers: Bret Harte Mark Twain. Regionalism. Embraces not the universal but the particular Focuses on what specifically characterizes a geographical area and its people. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
RegionalismLate 1800s
Preview
• Read p. 619 in your textbook. • You have 4 minutes.
Huge Regionalist Writers:
1) Bret Harte
2) Mark Twain
Regionalism•Embraces not the universal but the particular•Focuses on what specifically characterizes a geographical area and its people.•Regional writers strive to capture the speech, dress, common beliefs, and social interactions of a given area•Two huge regionalist writers:•Mark Twain•Bret Hart
*Writers wanted to record and celebrate the vast diversity of American landscape and it’s people
*Place/Setting is integral to the story itself
Local Color= unusual traditional features of a
particular place that make it interesting•Writers of local color use writing to “paint” local scenes•Vernacular= • language spoken by the people in a
particular locality. •Local colorists felt that the best way to capture a region’s heart and soul was to let readers “hear” its authentic speech patterns
Example of Vernacular(Local Color):
“cal’klated to edercate”= calculated to educate
Why might 19th century readers have been especially receptive to regionalist and local-color writing?
Readers were able to identify with the characters because they behaved and sounded like people they encountered in their everyday live.
Regionalism? Yes/No?
Regionalism? Yes/No?
Regionalism? Yes/No?
Regionalism? Yes/No?
Unit Vocabulary• Jocular * Protruding• Impropriety * Intangible• Conjectured * Apprehensive• Dilapidated * Imperative• Inanimate * Renown• Serenely * Incessantly• Conspicuous• Vacant• Feverish
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
• Characterization= The process by which a writer reveals the personality of a character
1) Direct Characterization1) By directly stating what the character is like
2) Indirect Characterization1) By describing the character’s thoughts, words, actions2) By showing how other characters react to him or her
Exit Slip
• Why might nineteenth-century readers have been especially receptive to regionalist and local-color writing?
• In your opinion, which qualities of regionalism might most appeal to today’s readers?