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Arkhagha, Leen, and Yousef Awad. "Faith, Identity and Magical Realism in Leila Aboulela’s Bird Summons." Advances in Language and Literary Studies 12, no. 4 (August 31, 2021): 115. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.alls.v.12n.4.p.115.

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This article adopts a literary analytical approach to illuminate the use of magical realism in the contemporary Anglophone Arab narrative of Leila Aboulela’s Bird Summons (2019). The study follows a methodology which combines two critical approaches to magical realism: first, a textual approach, and then a contextual one. Accordingly, the study uses key magical realist elements in Bird Summons to delineate the poetics of magical realism within the narrative, before determining the context in which magical realism functions in the narrative. Simultaneously, the study benefits from Christopher Warnes’s two strands of magical realism, ‘faith-based magical realism’ and ‘irreverent magical realism’ in providing a coherent basis for the use of magical realism in the text. This study aims at examining the significance of the magical realist narrative in articulating Arab British identity in Bird Summons. The analysis will interpret the role of magical realism in conveying and undermining the dominant ethnic and racial discourses which shape Arab British identities in Britain. The study’s findings demonstrate how the use of magical realism in the examined Anglophone Arab novel reinforces the fictional purposes of Aboulela as a hyphenated Arab, as it allows her to undermine dominant discourses on hyphenated Arab identities. At the same time, the use of magical realism allows Aboulela to (re)construct Arab British identities within her novel, apart from essentialist views of identity.

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Andalas, Maharani Intan. "NARASI REALISME MAGIS DALAM PUISI “GONG” KARYA NIRWAN DEWANTO." GENTA BAHTERA: Jurnal Ilmiah Kebahasaan dan Kesastraan 3, no. 2 (December 1, 2017): 147–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.47269/gb.v3i2.12.

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AbstrakPengaruh kesusastraan global berupa realisme magis ditemukan dalam sastra Indonesia, baik dalam prosa maupun puisi. Salah satu indikasi karya realisme magis adalah dihadirkannya mitos dalam konteks masa kini. Masalah yang dibahas dalam penelitian ini adalah bagaimana yang magis dan yang nyata dinarasikan berdasarkan elemen-elemen yang menjadi karakteristik realisme magis dalam puisi “Gong” serta hubungan antarelemen dan kadar realisme magis di dalamnya. Penelitian ini menggunakan teori naratif realisme magis Wendy B. Faris. Metode penelitian didasarkan pada teori berupa penentuan data dan pengumpulan data yang meliputi klasifikasi data menjadi dua kategori utama, yaitu data magis dan data riil. Dalam hasil dan pembahasan, dibuktikan bahwa puisi “Gong” mengandung narasi realisme magis atas mitos Calon Arang melalui lima karakteristik realisme magis yang terdapat di dalamnya. Selain itu, terdapat hubungan relasional di antara elemen yang menjadi karakteristik tersebut. Kadar realisme magis dilihat dari tokoh dan peristiwa dapat dikatakan cukup kuat. Puisi ini menggarisbawahi isu perempuan dan akhir patriaki. Isu tersebut berkait dengan konteks posmodernisme. Penggunaan mitos dalam puisi memperlihatkan cara pandang posmodernisme yang tidak terlepas dari Jakarta sebagai konteks sosial penyair. Kata kunci: mitos, narasi, realisme, magis, karakteristik AbstractThe impact of global literature of magical realism is found in Indonesia literature in both prose and poetry. One indication of the work of magical realism is the representation of myth in the contemporary context. The problem discussed in this research are the narration of the magic and the real in Gong poem and the connection between elements, also the level of magical realism in it. This research used narrative theory of magical realism by Wendy B Faris. This research method was based on magical realism theory in the form of data determination and data collection which included the classification into two categories namely magical data and real data. In result and discussion proved that Gong poem contained a narrative of magical realism upon Calon Arang myth through five characteristic of magical realism in it beside the relation among the elements. Magical realism level seen from character and events was strong enough. This poem underlines the issues of women and the end of patriarchy. The issues are related with postmodernism context. The myths in poem shows postmodernism point of view that can’t be separate from Jakarta as social context. Keywords: myth, narrative, magical, realism, characteristic

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Prytoliuk, Svitlana. "Conceptual Dimensions of German Magical Realism." Pitannâ lìteraturoznavstva, no. 108 (December 29, 2023): 112–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.31861/pytlit2023.108.112.

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The article outlines the vectors of methodological research of magical realism and identifies the differential features of this literary phenomenon in the theoretical discourse of German literary criticism. The author of the article focuses on the ambivalence of German magical realism, caused by the combination in magical realist texts of two inherently opposite ways of depicting reality – realistic and irreal. In magical realist texts, the magical appeal of reality is emphasized, when the objects of reality only hint at the existence of another world beyond it, acquiring a numinous aureole in the aesthetic focus of realism. The specificity of magical realism lies in its heterogeneity, and therefore requires the appropriate selection of methodological tools that would open the way to the world of magical realist texts, which in many cases has a multi-level structure with polysemantic content. Special attention within the context of the conceptualization of magical realism is paid to the semiotic model of “double conditioning” by A. Koschorke and the concept of “ruderal space” by B. Schaefer. In conclusion, the author emphasizes that magical realism demonstrates the synergistic effect of the emergence of a certain new artistic space with hidden deep meanings and elliptical structures that form the semantic polyphony of the text with a variable multiplicity of meanings. Through liminality and transgression, the semantic potential of the magical is activated, aimed at overcoming the boundary between the immanent and transcendent worlds.

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Yudono, Kristophorus Divinanto Adi, Godang Lamtiur Sitanggang, and Nugroho Widiyanto. "Realisme Magis dalam Naskah Drama Kejahatan Membalas Dendam Karya Idrus Tahun 1948." Indonesian Journal of Performing Arts Education 3, no. 1 (June 22, 2023): 8–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.24821/ijopaed.v3i1.8602.

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AbstrakRealisme magis merupakan karya sastra yang mengaburkan batas antara nalar dan luar nalar. Aliran ini tidak terlepas dari masyarakat Indonesia dengan masing-masing kepercayaan berkaitan magis/mistis yang merupakan unsur kebudayaan. Kajian ini dilakukan untuk menganalisis dan mendeskripsikan unsur realisme magis yang terdapat pada naskah drama Kejahatan Membalas Dendam karya Idrus. Analisis realisme magis pada naskah drama dilakukan berdasarkan penanda realisme magis yang dipetakan oleh Wendy Bush Faris. Pendekatan kajian ini adalah kualitatif deskriptif. Teknik dokumentasi literatur dilakukan sebagai metode pengumpulan data. Analisis dilakukan dengan simak catat, dengan cara membaca naskah drama dan mengklasifikasi naskah berdasarkan ciri realisme magis. Naskah Kejahatan Membalas Dendam karya Idrus memuat lima penanda realisme magis, yakni irreducible element, phenomenal world, unsettling doubt, merging realms, dan disruption identity. Penanda realisme magis ini tampak melalui dialog dan petunjuk lakuan atau tindakan tokoh. Berdasarkan hal tersebut, naskah Kejahatan Membalas Dendam karya Idrus tergolong naskah drama dengan unsur realisme magis. AbstractMagical realism is a literary work that blurs the boundaries between reason and beyond reason. This flow is inseparable from Indonesian society with their respective beliefs related to magic/mystics, which are elements of culture. This study was conducted to analyze and describe the elements of magical realism found in Idrus's drama Crimes of Revenge. The analysis of magical realism in the drama script is based on the markers of magical realism mapped by Wendy Bush Faris. The approach of this study is descriptive qualitative. The literature documentation technique is used as a data collection method. The analysis was carried out by observing notes, by reading the drama scripts and classifying the scripts based on the characteristics of magical realism. Idrus's manuscript of Evil Membas Revenge contains five magical realism markers: irreducible element, phenomenal world, unsettling doubt, merging realms, and identity disruption. This marker of magical realism can be seen through the dialogue and instructions for the behavior or actions of the characters. Based on this, the script for Crimes of Revenge by Idrus is classified as a drama script with elements of magical realism.

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Murtaza, Aemen, Mamona Yasmin Khan, and Masroor Sibtain. "Magical Realism: Portrayal of Human Suffering in The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender." Global Social Sciences Review VI, no. I (March 30, 2021): 246–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2021(vi-i).24.

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Magical realism is a genre of literature where fantasy and magic are normalized in reality, and the real world has an undercurrent of magical elements going on. The research is based on the qualitative method within the framework of the theory of Magical Realism presented by Wendy B. Faris (2004). The study at hand explores different aspects of magical realism in the selected novel by analyzing major themes according to Faris's theory of Magical Realism. The research aims to show how the typical presences of people in the novel have been super naturalized through heavenly magical realist segments. Moreover, the significance of this study lies in the fact that it explored seemingly opposite phenomena of 'magic' and 'realism' and established a connection between them. The study seeks to find how each character of the novel The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake is enduring in their own particular manner, representing the suffering of individuals in the real world considering the situation after World Wars. This research will open the ways for future researchers to work in the direction of magical realism and enhance its scope in general.

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Isnaeni, Ummu, Sinnta Usada, and Selvi Fitriani. "REALISME MAGIS DALAM NOVEL STASIUN KARYA PUTU WIJAYA." AKSARABACA Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, dan Budaya 1, no. 1 (May 1, 2024): 36–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.47313/aksarabaca.v1i1.3141.

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ABSTRAKPenelitian ini berjudul “Realisme Magis Dalam Novel Stasiun Karya Putu Wijaya”. Peristiwa yang terjadi dalam novel ini di analisis menggunakan teori realisme magis Wendy B. Faris. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan unsur-unsur atau wujud realisme magis dalam Novel Stasiun karya PutuWijaya.Metode dalam penelitian ini adalah metode deskriptif kualitatif, di mana peneliti hanya berfokus pada menjelaskan dan menempatkan makna, deskripsi, dan informasi yang berbeda dalam konteksnya. Secara teoritis peneliti menggunakan teori realisme magis Wendy B. Faris yang menyatakan bahwa terdapat adanyakelima unsur yang terdiri dalam realisme magis yaitu; The Irreducible Element, The Phenomenal World, Merging Realism, Unsettling Doubts, dan Disruption of Time, Space, and Identify. Hasil dalam penelitian yang diperoleh peneliti dalam penelitian ini adalah; (1) ditemukan empat peristiwa yang menggambarkanunsur the irreducible element; (2) empat peristiwa yang menggambarkan unsur the phenomenal world; (3) tiga peristiwa yang menggambarkan unsur merging realism; (4) lima peristiwa yang menggambarkan unsur unsettling doubts; (5) empat peristiwa yang menggambarkan unsur disruption of time, space, and identify. Kata kunci: realisme magis, novel, metode deskriptif kualitatif ABSTRACTThis study is entitled "Magical Realism in the Novel Station by Putu Wijaya". The events that occur in this novel are analyzed using Wendy B. Faris' magical realism theory. This study aims to describe the elements or forms of magical realism in Putu Wijaya's Novel Stasiun. The method in this study is a qualitativedescriptive method, in which the researcher only focuses on explaining and placing different meanings, descriptions, and information in context. Theoretically, the researcher uses Wendy B. Faris' magical realismtheory which states that there are five elements that comprise magical realism, namely; The Irreducible Element, The Phenomenal World, Merging Realism, Unsettling Doubts, and Disruptionof Time, Space, and Identify. The results of the research obtained by the researchers in this study were; (1) four events were found that described the irreducible element; (2) four events that describe the elements of the phenomenal world; (3) three events that illustrate the elements of merging realism; (4)five events that illustrate the elements of unsettling doubts; (5) four events that illustrate the elements of disruption oftime, space, and identify. Keywords: magical realism, novel, qualitative description methods

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Prasetyohadi, Dio Catur, Hat Pujiati, and Irana Astutiningsih. "Magical Realism-Like in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (Serupa Realisme Magis dalam “A Midsummer Night's Dream” karya Shakespeare)." JENTERA: Jurnal Kajian Sastra 7, no. 1 (June 30, 2018): 52. http://dx.doi.org/10.26499/jentera.v7i1.508.

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This article uses concepts of magical realism by Wendy B. Faris to analyze Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. We analyze elements of magical realism of the work in mapping discourses between the text and the real life. The chosen material object that published earlier than the theory we chose make this work contributes to describe the trace of the civilization development; event of in-betweeness of human consciousness. However, we have found that A Midsummer Night’s Dream is only a magical realism-like mode, since realism is dominant in the text as the trace of modernity. Meanwhile, the characteristics of Magical Realism that is postulated by Faris is in-between realism and fantasy as a trace of transition era; modern to postmodern. Abstrak: Artikel ini menggunakan konsep-konsep realism magis oleh Wendy B. Faris untuk menganalisis “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” karya Shakespeare. Kami menganalisis elemen-elemen realism magis yang ada dalam karya untuk memetakan wacana-wacana yang ada antara teks dan kenyataan. Pemilihan objek materi yang telah dipublikasi lebih awal dari kelahiran teori yangkami pilih ini berkontribusi untuk menjelaskan jejak perkembanan peradaban Kebudayaan; peristiwa keberantaraan pada kesadaran manusia. Namun demikian, kami menemukan bahwa “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” hanyalah moda tulisan Serupa Realisme Magis, karena dominan teks lebih pada realisme yang merupakan jejak dari modernitas. Sementara syarat realism magis yang ditawarkan Faris adalah keberantaraan realisme dan fantasi sebagai jejak era transisi modern menuju postmodern.

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Mahesh Chandra Tiwari. "Magic Realism in the Works of Isabel Allende and Gabriel García and Laura Esquivel." Creative Launcher 6, no. 5 (December 30, 2021): 30–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.53032/tcl.2021.6.5.04.

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To begin, this article provides a short overview of Magic Realism. The meaning of the term the origins and development of Magical Realist literature, as well as "Magic Realism," must be explored next. Three famous authors will be discussed: Garcia Marquez, Isabelle Allende, and Laura Esquivel, as well as female writers Isabelle Allende and Laura Esquivel. In addition, a number of outstanding works by well-known authors connected with the literary movement Magical Realism are critically analysed. A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings, Like Water for Chocolate and The House of the Spirits are among the notable literary works to be studied in terms of their Magical Realist aspects.

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Rahayu, Anik Cahyaning, Sudarwati Sudarwati, and Susie Chrismalia Garnida. "Magical Phenomena in Reality in Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson and The Olympians: The Lightning Thief." Seltics Journal: Scope of English Language Teaching Literature and Linguistics 7, no. 1 (June 24, 2024): 109–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.46918/seltics.v7i1.2198.

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This research examines the elements of magical realism, using descriptive qualitative method, a literary genre depicting magic in the modern world, in Rick Riordan's "Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief." Applying Wendy B. Faris' theory of magical realism's five characteristics: the irreducible element, the phenomenal world, unsettling doubts, merging realism, and disruption of time/space/identity. The research identifies these aspects in the novel. The analysis reveals the novel contains irreducible magical elements like worlds, characters, and objects, exemplified by Percy's encounter with the shape-shifting monster Erinyes disguised as his teacher. The phenomenal world encompasses magical places and beings. Unsettling doubts arise from Percy directly addressing the reader about his experiences. Merging realism intertwines the magical realm rooted in myths with the tangible world, as monsters and gods frequently intermingle with reality. Disruption of time manifests when Percy experiences slowed time at the Lotus Hotel during his quest. The study concludes that "The Lightning Thief" exhibits all five characteristics of magical realism by integrating mythological magic into the contemporary setting. Irreducible magical elements, a phenomenal, magical world, narrator-induced unsettling doubts, the merging of mythical and real realms, and space-time distortions collectively categorize the novel as an exemplar of magical realist fiction.

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Widijanto, Tjahjono. "JAGAD ALUS MISTIS JAWA DALAM CERPEN-CERPEN DANARTO DAN FANTASI MAGIS TERNATE DALAM NOVEL CALA IBI KARYA NUKILA AMAL." JENTERA: Jurnal Kajian Sastra 7, no. 1 (June 30, 2018): 102. http://dx.doi.org/10.26499/jentera.v7i1.682.

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Abstrak: Artikel ini mengkaji kumpulan cerpen Godlob karya Danarto dan novel Cala Ibi karya Nukila Amal dari sudut pandang realisme magis. Realisme magis dipahami sebagai gaya estetetik yang mengandung unsur-unsur magis bercampur aduk dengan realitas. Dalam realisme magis wilayah mistis dan realitas empiris diperlakukan sejajar karena yang fantasi dan supranatural mengakar pada realitas kultural dan historis. Kajian dalam tulisan ini berdasarkan pandangan bahwa teks sastra pasti akan terpengaruh oleh kultur masyarakat dan pengarangnya. Muatan makna yang terdapat di dalam karya sastra akan dipengaruhi dan ditentukan oleh kosmologi budaya, nila-nilai, norma, konvensi sosial budaya atau bahkan ideologi pengarangnya. Metode dalam tulisan ini menggunakan metode kualitatif deskriptif, yakni prosedur penelitian yang menghasilkan data-data deskriptif berupa kata-kata atau kalimat tertulis yang menunjukkan kadar realisme magis dalam cerpen-cerpen Danarto yang terkumpul dalam kumpulan cerpen Godlob dan dalam novel Cala Ibi karya Nukila Amal. Dalam kumpulan crpen Godlob karya Danarto maupun novel Cala Ibi Nukila Amal dapat ditemukan ciri-ciri realisme magis, yakni elemen yang tidak dapat direduksi, dunia fenomenal, keraguan-keraguan yang menggoyahkan, penggabuangan antara yang magis fantasi dengan realitas dan rusaknya batas, ruang, waktu dan identitas. Dalam cerpen-cerpen Danarto, realisme magis berlandaskan mistisisme Jawa berupa konsep-konsep sangkan paraning dumadi, mulih-mulanira, dan manunggaling kawula-gusti, sedangkan dalam novel Cala Ibi, realisme magis berdasarkan mitos-mitos historis Ternate, dan sufisme Islam dengan konsep wahdatul wujud. Abstract: These article investigate the short story collections of Godlob by danarto and novel Cala Ibi by Nukila Amal from from point of view magical realism. Magical realism is being understood as an aesthetic style which is consist of magical elements that mixed by reality. In magical realism, the mistic and empirical reality treated parallely because of the fantasy and supranatural which is rooted to cultural and historical reality. The study of these writing based on a view that literature writing will be affected and determined cultural cosmology, values, norm, cultural social converence or even the writer ideology. The metode in these writing using descriptive qualitative metode, that is research procedure which is produced descriptive datas contain word`s or `written sentences pointed Godlob and the novel Cala Ibi by Nukila Amal can be found in the magical realism: elements that cannot be reducted, fenomenal world, faltering doubts, merging between magical fantasy with reality and the damage limit, space, time and identity. In Danarto’s short story, magical realism based on Javanese mistism such as concept sangkan paraning dumadi,mulih mulanira and manunggaling kawula gusti. While in the novel Cala Ibi, magical realism based on Ternate historical myths and Islamic sufism with wihdatul wujud comcept.

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Rave, Maria Eugenia B. "Magical Realism and Latin America." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2003. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/RaveMEB2003.pdf.

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Robinson, Lorna Sophia. "Magical realism in Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2005. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1446551/.

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This thesis explores aspects of magical realism in Ovid's Metamorphoses . It uses the Cien anos de soledad of Gabriel Garcia Marquez as a comparative tool, examining narrative devices common to both texts; each chapter analyses an important feature of magical realist theory or technique. The first chapter studies the narrative methods that create magical realism, such as anachronism, hybridism and use of internal narrators. In the second chapter, the theory that magical realism arises from a clash of cultures is explored by analysing magical realist episodes in each text from a cultural perspective. The third chapter focuses exclusively on magical realism's connection to Latin America, while the fourth chapter uses case studies of characters from each text to examine how effectively the mode depicts reality. The final chapter investigates the representation of artists and creativity in each work. By exploring Ovid's poem using a modern critical theory, this thesis provides fresh insight into magical aspects of Metamorphoses and broadens the scope of magical realism as a literary term.

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Stockwell, Trefor. "Magical realism : master or servant?" Thesis, Bangor University, 2014. https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/magical-realism--master-or-servant(686d8e14-4843-4a96-8973-8d051d3abd33).html.

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This study seeks to show the process of development by which my writing of this series of short stories has responded to my relationship to a welcoming, albeit alien, culture; namely: a small mountain village in south west Bulgaria. It also explores my responses to living and working within that c.ulture, and the ways in which my studies of the folk culture, history and the impact of western culture on existing cultural beliefs and values have also affected both my writing and my own rather ambiguous cultural background (see introduction p. 1). The core of the thesis is a collection of eighteen short stories, written to be performed, and consequently written in storyteller's style. All of the stories, excluding the first and the eighteenth, were written during my two year stay in Bulgaria, and linked using the conceit of the fictional storyteller, Ivan levsky, and all were written in response either to historical events, cultural events or local incidents or characters. It also seeks to illustrate the way in which my work became increasingly reliant on the freedom that Magical Realism allows. It was this freedom that led me to write this collection in the style in which it is written, and led me to the final conclusion that I had no other option of saying what I wished to say in the way in which it was said; hence the rather ambiguous title: Magical Realism; Master or Servant? The literary background is explored through critical reflections in the final chapters. Where appropriate I have explained the genesis of each work and, where appropriate, the influences of the work of other writers upon my writing; in particular the works of Salman Rushdie and Angela Carter. I have also included short critical explorations of the major works of both of these writers. As the stories contain Bulgarian and Turkish words which may not be familiar to some readers I have also included a glossary. For the same reason I have included a brief historical time line relevant to each story.

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Reeds, Kenneth S. "An evolutionary definition of magical realism." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2008. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/16684/.

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This thesis, titled ‘An Evolutionary Definition of Magical Realism’, studies the changing meaning attached to the term in the secondary literature and, more importantly, contextualizes the criticism with a detailed analysis of key literary texts from throughout magical realism’s more than eighty years of evolution. The work of Jorge Luis Borges and Alejo Carpertier is used to elucidate the magical-realist pre-history, with particular focus on two tropes: the ‘neo-fantastic’ (a term created by Jamie Alazraki for a notion first outlined by Tzvetan Todorov) and ‘recasting of history’. The thesis subsequently analyses the presence of these two tropes in five test-cases taken from various stages in magical realism’s evolution: Gabriel García Márquez’s Cien Años de soledad, Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, Günter Grass’s The Tin Drum, Toni Morrison’s Son of Solomon, and Orhan Pamuk’s Snow. The thesis’s final goal is to demonstrate that magical realism is a combination of the neo-fantastic and recasting of history and with this definition and the close-readings which support it, confront the critical imprecision which has beleaguered the magical-realist debate for many years.

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Aldea, Ewa Veverica. "A new theory of magical realism." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.538316.

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Lyons, Reneé C. "Magical Realism Fosters Creativity to Innovation." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2368.

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Do you hope to promote, encourage and foster critical thinking and creativity in your library? Visit this session to discover reader response, literature-based, and interdisciplinary activities appropriate to selected works of magical realism (grades 4-7).

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Berg, Sharon Louise. "Magic in the North : magical realism in contemporary Scandinavian fiction /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/10243.

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Stanford, Amanda Theresa. "Outsized reality : how 'magical realism' hijacked modern Latin American fiction." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/7847.

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Creative Portion abstract (75%): Literary Fiction Manuscript Souvenirs of the Revolution Against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution of 1910, betrayal, sexual deviance, rigid morality and a fatal subservience to moral correctness drives the Montelejos clan: complex and self-serving, innocent and deluded, larger than life, an illustrious family line in its final decline. Mariabella Montelejos, who tries to sell her only daughter for the price of a new carriage during the bloodiest part of the Revolution. Her daughter, Portensia Montelejos, who leaves her mother’s body to moulder in the front room after soldiers come at the point of a gun. Gloria Vasquez, celebrated beauty, practising witch, and tormentor of her step-sister, Teresa: ill, gullible, naive, awoken to her destiny by the surreal birth of her daughter. Paulina, a child who once communed with the holy, made an empty vessel by the abuse of her father – and revered as a living saint as she lies dying in a Pueblano convent. The men of the family, weak and susceptible to the mandates of their dying class, are no match for the machinations of such women. Evil abuser Ebner Collins, paralyzed by a jealous man’s bullet in the middle of the Sinai desert. Hernando Vasquez, cowed into marriage by the longing for his dead wife, Evelyn Cuthbert. Guiermo Fuentes de Solis, cuckolded husband. Jaime Vasquez, who hears voices and lives at the bottom of a bottle, unable to save his cousin Paulina. The Revolution is the beginning of the end for Montelejos, and the miraculous will be its undoing. Analytical Portion abstract (25%): An Outsized Reality: How “Magical Realism” Hijacked Modern Latin American Literature With the publication of Gabriel García Márquez’s Cien Anos de Soledad in 1967, Latin American writing captured the world’s attention. Critics, readers, and imitators rushed to discuss and emulate this astounding novel. A whole genre of literature, “magical realism”, was popularized, and with it, critical discussion of its influences, history, genre limitations, and the sheer “imagination” it brought to the forefront of literary debate. In this thesis I will discuss the problems associated with “Western” critical analysis of Latin American writing, specifically as it seeks to define, without a proper context, the literature which draws life from the history and culture of Latin America and categorizes its literature without the cultural understanding required.

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Boyd, Joan. "From realism to magical realism : the American Vietnam War novel." Thesis, University of Ulster, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.551596.

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This thesis argues that changes in the form of the novel in post Second World War America, particularly certain novelists' considerations of realism as a viable mode of expression, have had a profound and lasting effect on Vietnam War literature and have been sustained into the twenty first century by a new generation of writers from ethnic minority groups. It examines prior criticism and points of view concerning the work of a number of established authors and considers the recent opinions on contemporary writers addressing the Vietnam experience for the first time. Where necessary the work will be contextualized with social history. The contribution to knowledge is fulfilled by the inclusion of Mexican- American writing within the past decade and by explaining its place in the overall literary contribution to the American Vietnam War novel. The method of investigation is literary critical analysis of selected novels from 1968 to 2002 as applied to examples of the authors' use of realism and magical realism, their imaginative language, the effect of trauma on literary expression and the manifestation of trauma in memory. When necessary, reference is made to myth criticism. The thesis outlines the tendency to go beyond realism and the forces which contributed to it, and argues that the more recent evolution from realism to magical realism, within the wide range of the Vietnam narrative, has facilitated a potentially more powerful and valid means of expression. The investigation concludes that despite being overtaken by other theatres of war, the conflict in Vietnam still maintains its place in American consciousness and that the recent examples of magical realism offered by ethnic minority writers have made a significant contribution to ensuring that the voices from a wider cultural mix are being added to the literary representations of the Vietnam experience.

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Young, Jennifer Maria. "Paradidomi : magical realism and the American South." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2009. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/169817/.

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The thesis is comprised of a novel and a critical reflection. The novel component, entitled The Mathers’ Land, draws on traditions of magical realism, storytelling, memory and metafiction. The framing narrative of the novel follows Luanne Richardson, a librarian who has moved South with her new boyfriend, Kenneth Miers. As soon as they arrive in Peebles, North Carolina, Kenneth disappears. Luanne only knows that he last visited a particular house that belongs to the Mathers, the richest family in Peebles. Luanne forces an encounter with the head of the family, Walter Mathers. Despite her initially confrontational contact, Walter Mathers offers Luanne a job to construct a history of his family through interviews and records. He hopes the history will provide an answer to why his only son Eric has not produced an heir. Luanne’s research draws her into a claustrophobic society where no one seems to notice the frequent deaths of the wives of the Mathers family or their odd attachment to roses and a dogwood tree, as elements of magical realism occur in the frame story. The interviews Luanne conducts appear on the pages of the novel as fully developed stories, which draw on themes of tradition, loss and family attachment. These themes are explored through perceptions of memory and storytelling. The critical reflection component considers both what methods and writings made it to the thesis as well as what methods and writings did not. It explores the modes of construction, from the use of Oulipian and metafictional techniques to the use of magical realism. The major influences from specific writers are addressed in terms of structure, magical realism and Southerness, specifically Harry Mathews, Joseph McElroy, Mischa Berlinksi, Sharyn McCrumb, Randall Kenan, Steven Sherrill, and particularly Doris Betts. The reflection concludes by addressing what it means to be an expatriate ‘Southern’ writer.

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Books on the topic "Magical realism"

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Sasser, Kim Anderson. Magical Realism and Cosmopolitanism. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137301901.

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Parkinson, Zamora Lois, and Faris Wendy B, eds. Magical realism: Theory, history, community. Durham, N.C: Duke University Press, 1995.

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M, Hart Stephen, and Ouyang Wen-chin, eds. A companion to magical realism. Rochester, NY: Tamesis, 2005.

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Warnes, Christopher. Magical Realism and the Postcolonial Novel. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230234437.

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Dispenza, Joseph. The magical realism of Alyce Frank. [Santa Fe, N.M.]: New Mexico Magazine, 1999.

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Sętowski, Tomasz. Teatr magiczny: The magical theatre. Warszawa: Warszawskie Wydawn. Literackie MUZA SA, 2000.

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Di Iorio Sandín, Lyn, and Richard Perez, eds. Moments of Magical Realism in US Ethnic Literatures. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137329240.

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Maxwell, Marina Ama Omowale. Chopstix in Mauby: A metaphor of magical realism. Leeds, Yorkshire: Peepal Tree, 1996.

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McGovern, Timothy Michael. Galdós beyond realism: Reading and the creation of magical worlds. Newark, Del: Juan de la Cuesta, 2004.

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Zamora, Lois Parkinson, and Wendy B. Faris, eds. Magical Realism. Duke University Press, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9780822397212.

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Gibson, Marion. "Magical realism, magical romance." In Rediscovering Renaissance Witchcraft, 111–30. 1 [edition]. | New York: Routledge, 2017.: Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315147802-8.

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Zamora, Lois Parkinson. "Magical Romance/Magical Realism." In Magical Realism, 497–550. Duke University Press, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9780822397212-025.

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ZAMORA, LOIS PARKINSON. "Magical Romance/Magical Realism:." In Magical Realism, 497–550. Duke University Press, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv11cw5w1.28.

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Delbaere-Garant, Jeanne. "Psychic Realism, Mythic Realism, Grotesque Realism." In Magical Realism, 249–63. Duke University Press, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9780822397212-014.

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DELBAERE-GARANT, JEANNE. "Psychic Realism, Mythic Realism, Grotesque Realism:." In Magical Realism, 249–64. Duke University Press, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv11cw5w1.17.

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Roger, Sarah, and Kim Anderson Sasser. "Magical Realism." In Latin America in the World, 155–68. Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315717326-15.

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D’haen, Theo. "Magical Realism." In Magical Realism and Literature, 117–30. Cambridge University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108551601.010.

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Sieber, Sharon. "Magical realism." In The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature, 165–78. Cambridge University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ccol9780521429597.016.

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Siskind, Mariano. "Magical realism." In The Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literature, 833–68. Cambridge University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/chol9781107007031.007.

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"Magical Realism." In The Routledge Companion to Latino/a Literature, 350–57. Routledge, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203097199-41.

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Conference papers on the topic "Magical realism"

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Schofield, Tom, Diego Trujillo Pisanty, Gabriella Arrigoni, Kim Reynolds, and Rachel Pattinson. "Magical Realism and Augmented Reality." In DIS '19: Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2019. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3322276.3322293.

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Korobko, Kristina Viacheslavovna. "THE SPECIFICITY OF MO YAN’S MAGICAL REALISM." In Themed collection of papers from Foreign international scientific conference «Joint innovation - joint development». Part 1. Ьу НNRI «National development» in cooperation with PS ofUA. June 2023. Crossref, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.37539/230629.2023.51.14.036.

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This article reveals the essence of the concept of “magical realism” in the context of the work of Mo Yan and his novel “Frog”. The relations between myth, cultural and literary traditions and modern reality are analyzed in the light of magical realism as a literary method.

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Kenderdine, Sarah. "Somatic solidarity, Magical Realism and Animating Popular Gods: Place-Hampi "where intensities are felt"." In 2007 11th International Conference Information Visualization (IV '07). IEEE, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/iv.2007.103.

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Dewojati, Cahyaningrum, and Rina Zuliana. "The Remystification Of Women’s Narratives in Sihir Perempuan And Gentayangan By Intan Paramaditha: A Magical Realism Study." In Proceedings of the 4th BASA: International Seminar on Recent Language, Literature and Local Culture Studies, BASA, November 4th 2020, Solok, Indonesia. EAI, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/eai.4-11-2020.2314216.

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Schofield, Tom, John Bowers, and Diego Trujillo Pisanty. "Magical Realist Design." In DIS '20: Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2020. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3357236.3395530.

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Tavares, Tatiana. "Paradoxical saints: Polyvocality in an interactive AR digital narrative." In LINK 2021. Tuwhera Open Access, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/link2021.v2i1.81.

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This artistic, practice-led PhD thesis is concerned with the potentials of polyvocality and interactive digital narrative. The practical project, Saints of Paradox, is constructed as a printed picture book that can be experienced through an Augmented Reality [AR] platform. The fictional story entails a woman who mourns the disappearance of her lover in the 1964 Brazilian coup d’état and lives for 40 years in a room of accumulated memories. IIn each illustration, the user can select three buttons on the tablet device that activates a different version of the story. Three narrators (saints) present interconnected but diverging interpretations of the events shaped by their distinct theological positions. The respective values of compassion, orthodoxy, and pragmatic realism distort details of imagery, sound, movement, and meaning. AR animated vignettes, each backed by a uniquely composed cinematic soundscape, allow characters to populate the luxuriously illustrated world. Candles flicker and burn, snakes curl through breathing flowerbeds, and rooms furnished with the contents of accumulated memories pulsate with mystery. The scanned image reviews an interactive parallax that produces a sense of three-dimensional space, functioning as a technical and conceptual component. Theoretically, the story navigates relationships between the real and the imagined and refers to magical real binary modes of textual representation (Flores, 1955, Champi, 1980; Slemon, 1988, 1995; Spindler, 1993; Zamora and Faris; 1995; Bowers, 2004). Here, meaning negotiates an unreliable, sometimes paradoxical pathway between rational and irrational accounting and polyvocal narration. The dynamics between the book and the AR environments produce a sense of mixed reality (actual and virtual). The narrative experience resides primarily in an unstable virtual world, and the printed book functions as an enigmatic unoccupied vessel. Because of this, we encounter a sense of ontological reversal where the ‘virtual’ answers the ambiguities presented by the ‘real’ (the book). In the work, religious syncretism operates as a reference to Brazilian culture and an artistic device used to communicate a negotiation of different voices and points of view. The strange and somehow congruous forms of European, African, and indigenous influences merge to form the photomontage world of the novel. Fragments of imagery may be considered semiotic markers of cultural and ideological miscegenation and assembled into an ambiguous ‘new real’ state of being that suggests syncretic completeness. Methodologically, the project emanates from a post-positivist, artistic research paradigm (Klein, 2010). It is supported by a heuristic approach (Douglass and Moustakas, 1985) to the discovery and refinement of ideas through indwelling and explicitness. Thus, the research draws upon tacit and explicit knowledge in developing a fictional narrative, structure, and stylistic treatments. A series of research methods were employed to assess the communicative potential of the work. Collaboration with other practitioners enabled high expertise levels and provided an informed platform of exchange and idea progression.

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Rearick, Jeff. "Magical thinking applied to test engineering reality (and vice versa)." In 2013 18th IEEE European Test Symposium (ETS). IEEE, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ets.2013.6569346.

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Zhang, Sunny, Brennan Jones, Sean Rintel, and Carman Neustaedter. "XRmas: Extended Reality Multi-Agency Spaces for a Magical Remote Christmas." In CSCW '21: Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3462204.3481782.

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Fiala, Mark, and Gerhard Roth. "Magic lens augmented reality." In SIGGRAPH07: Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques Conference. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1280720.1280885.

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Lempitsky, Victor, Alexander Vakhitov, and Andrew Starostin. "CarpetVR: The Magic Carpet Meets the Magic Mirror." In 2018 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR). IEEE, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/vr.2018.8446576.

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Reports on the topic "Magical realism"

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Hawkins, Benjamin. Exploring Realism and Magical Realism in Slum Novels of the Global South. Portland State University Library, January 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.15760/honors.6.

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Donoso, José. Houses, Voices and Language in Latin America. Inter-American Development Bank, March 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0007906.

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