Post by nolan on Jun 26, 2006 3:18:25 GMT -5
There is a long tradition of writers writing about the specific circumstances of the area they lived in. Irvine Welsh writes often about working class Scotland. Dickens wrote about underpriveleged areas of Victorian London. Bret Harte wrote about life in the west. Mark Twain wrote about life on the Mississippi. William Faulkner wrote a number of stories set in a fictional Southern county. Thomas Hardy wrote about a fictional area in England called Wessex.
From Wikipedia: "For instance, much has been written about the "sense of place", a well-known phenomenon in human society in which people strongly identify with a particular geographical area or location"
From A Handbook to Literature by William Harmon and Hugh Holden:
"REGIONALISM Fidelity to a particular area; the representation of its habits, speech, manners, history, folklore, or beliefs. A test of regionalism is that the action and personages of such a work cannot be moved, without major loss or distortion, to any other geographical setting. Thomas Hardy, in his portrayal of life in Wessex, wrote regional novels. The Local Color Writing in America in the last third of the nineteenth century was a form of regionalism. Arnold Bennett's novels of the Five Towns are markedly regional, as is Margaret Drabble's treatment of the same region.
The recent literature of the American South ahs been alrgely regional. In the twentieth century, a concept of regionalism rather more complex then that of its nineteenth century counterpart has developed, partly as a result of the work of cultural anthropologists and sociologists (notably Howard W. Odum), and has expressed itself in literature through the conscious seeking out, in the local and the particular, of those aspects of character and destiny common to all people. in this respect the work of Willa Cather, Ellen Glasgow, William Faulkner, and Robert Penn Warren stands out."
For this prompt, write a comic story that emphasized place and/or region. The rule here is that the story has to be a story that can ONLY work within the one particular area (city, town, neighbourhood, etc.) that you have chosen.
More Links:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regionalism_%28literature%29
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_color
www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/lcolor.html
docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/regionalism.html
www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/lcolor.html
From Wikipedia: "For instance, much has been written about the "sense of place", a well-known phenomenon in human society in which people strongly identify with a particular geographical area or location"
From A Handbook to Literature by William Harmon and Hugh Holden:
"REGIONALISM Fidelity to a particular area; the representation of its habits, speech, manners, history, folklore, or beliefs. A test of regionalism is that the action and personages of such a work cannot be moved, without major loss or distortion, to any other geographical setting. Thomas Hardy, in his portrayal of life in Wessex, wrote regional novels. The Local Color Writing in America in the last third of the nineteenth century was a form of regionalism. Arnold Bennett's novels of the Five Towns are markedly regional, as is Margaret Drabble's treatment of the same region.
The recent literature of the American South ahs been alrgely regional. In the twentieth century, a concept of regionalism rather more complex then that of its nineteenth century counterpart has developed, partly as a result of the work of cultural anthropologists and sociologists (notably Howard W. Odum), and has expressed itself in literature through the conscious seeking out, in the local and the particular, of those aspects of character and destiny common to all people. in this respect the work of Willa Cather, Ellen Glasgow, William Faulkner, and Robert Penn Warren stands out."
For this prompt, write a comic story that emphasized place and/or region. The rule here is that the story has to be a story that can ONLY work within the one particular area (city, town, neighbourhood, etc.) that you have chosen.
More Links:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regionalism_%28literature%29
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_color
www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/lcolor.html
docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/regionalism.html
www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/lcolor.html