Author: Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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Author: Lois Parkinson Zamora
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822316404
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 598

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On magical realism in literature

Author: James Gurney
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 0740785508
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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A examination of time-tested methods used by artists since the Renaissance to make realistic pictures of imagined things.

Author: Christopher Warnes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108621759
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 736

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Magical realism can lay claim to being one of most recognizable genres of prose writing. It mingles the probable and improbable, the real and the fantastic, and it provided the late-twentieth century novel with an infusion of creative energy in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and beyond. Writers such as Alejo Carpentier, Gabriel García Márquez, Isabel Allende, Salman Rushdie, Ben Okri, and many others harnessed the resources of narrative realism to the representation of folklore, belief, and fantasy. This book sheds new light on magical realism, exploring in detail its global origins and development. It offers new perspectives of the history of the ideas behind this literary tradition, including magic, realism, otherness, primitivism, ethnography, indigeneity, and space and time.

Author: Wendy B. Faris
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 9780826514424
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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Ordinary Enchantments investigates magical realism as the most important trend in contemporary international fiction, defines its characteristics and narrative techniques, and proposes a new theory to explain its significance. In the most comprehensive critical treatment of this literary mode to date, Wendy B. Faris discusses a rich array of examples from magical realist novels around the world, including the work not only of Latin American writers like Gabriel Garcia Marquez, but also of authors like Salman Rushdie, Gunter Grass, Toni Morrison, and Ben Okri. Faris argues that by combining realistic representation with fantastic elements so that the marvelous seems to grow organically out of the ordinary, magical realism destabilizes the dominant form of realism based on empirical definitions of reality, gives it visionary power, and thus constitutes what might be called a "remystification" of narrative in the West. Noting the radical narrative heterogeneity of magical realism, the author compares its cultural role to that of traditional shamanic performance, which joins the worlds of daily life and that of the spirits. Because of that capacity to bridge different worlds, magical realism has served as an effective decolonizing agent, providing the ground for marginal voices, submerged traditions, and emergent literatures to develop and create masterpieces. At the same time, this process is not limited to postcolonial situations but constitutes a global trend that replenishes realism from within. In addition to describing what many consider to be the progressive cultural work of magical realism, Faris also confronts the recent accusation that magical realism and its study as a global phenomenon can be seen as a form of commodification and an imposition of cultural homogeneity. And finally, drawing on the narrative innovations and cultural scenarios that magical realism enacts, she extends those principles toward issues of gender and the possibility of a female element within magical realism.

Author: Bradley Sides
Publisher: City of Light Publishing
ISBN: 1952536219
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 147

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Prepare to be transported to the edge of the world in Bradley Sides' affecting and haunting debut collection of magical realism short stories, Those Fantastic Lives and Other Strange Stories. In Sides' tender, brilliantly-imagined collection, a young boy dreams of being a psychic like his grandmother, a desperate man turns to paper for a miracle, a swarm of fireflies attempts the impossible, scarecrows and ghosts collide, a mother and child navigate a forest plagued by light-craving monsters, a boy's talking dolls aid him in conquering a burning world, and a father and mother deal with the sudden emergence of wings on their son's back. Brimming with our deepest fears and desires, Sides' dazzling stories examine the complexities of masculinity, home, transformation, and loss. Bradley Sides is an exciting new voice in fiction, and Those Fantastic Lives, which glows with the light of hope and possibility amidst dark uncertainties, will ignite imaginations.

Author: Dale Couch
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780915977239
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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This exhibition catalogue presents about two dozen children's chairs as well as a doll's chair and adult chairs for comparison of scale and style. Not all of these chairs were made in Georgia but all are in Georgia collections. Most of the chairs are handmade in the tradition of turned chairs; some are the products of proto-industrial shops called Variety Works. Most of them also retain their life histories of paint and wear from being used as a support while children were learning to walk.

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Languages : en
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Author: Seymour Menton
Publisher: Philadelphia : Art Alliance Press ; London : Associated University Presses
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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Author: Dorothy C. Miller
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Languages : en
Pages :

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