Re: slang/regionalisms

Charles Riggs wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 09:23:06 GMT, "Steven Sparks" <s.sparks@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I'm an American Lit. student in Italy. I'm writing an essay on the influence
> >of slang and regionalism in modern am. lit. (esp. novels). I'm trying to
> >put together as many titles as possible. I've found a great and lasting
> >source in Damon Runyon's "Guys and Dolls" (New York), and George V.
> >Higgins's novels (Boston). I would really appreciate other suggestions, esp.
> >as far as southern and western slang/regionalisms, or Italian/American
> >writers (I have already researched John Fante's novels).
>
> For Southern slang you can't do better than the novels of William
> Faulkner. Be sure to read Mark Twain as well. Both do dialogue to
> near-perfection.
> --
> Charles Riggs

Agreed but is Mark Twain "modern"? I don't have the books to hand but
John Steinbeck must have used mid-west in "The Grapes of Wrath", a
wonderful book about famine during the depression, and Jack London's
"Call of the Wild" some Northern dialects?

Here's the latter so you can judge for yourself:

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/London/Writings/CallOfTheWild/chapter1.html

.

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