Search results for "Magic realism"
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Towards Hybrid Aesthetics
1998
In order to avoid limiting hybridity to sterile ‘racial’ considerations, it needs to be placed firmly in its cultural context. Cultures and civilisations have often been taken as synonyms. For E.B. Tylor in Primitive Culture, words such as ‘culture’ or ‘civilization’ refer to the body of sciences, arts, beliefs, moral principles, laws, customs, in short all the habits and faculties acquired by human beings as part of their social life. Tylor draws a distinction between three stages in the evolution of societies: the savage, the barbarian and the civilised. He thus reintroduces a hierarchy between ‘civilisation’, which is reserved for the highest point on his evolutionary scale, and ‘culture…
From Fantasy to Magic Realism
1998
Much use has been made of the term ‘magic realism’ to refer to texts which introduce an important ‘imaginary’ dimension into ‘realistic’ evocations of the world. The Cuban Alejo Carpentier has also coined the phrase to real maravilloso (marvellous reality) which he applies to a vision characteristic of Central and South America.
Are Distinctions Between Genres Still Relevant?
1998
Why do readers — and especially literary critics — feel the need to classify works of art into categories which one often calls genres? On the one hand fashionable ideas lead some commentators to argue that, in this infinitely innovative world, genres have become irrelevant because traditional rules have been subverted. The ineffable text (sacralized in italics) is all that counts. Yet, on the other, their description of works of literature inevitably resorts to such terms as ‘fantasy’, ‘allegory’, ‘realism’, ‘tragedy’, even if they carefully place these in inverted commas. As the ‘reception’ school of criticism has convincingly shown, a novel, poem or play takes on its full meaning when it…
Neoextractivism, or the birth of magical realism as world literature
2021
In recent years, literary criticism has shown increased interest towards the manner in which fiction depicts (neo)extractivism as a set of practices whereby large quantities of natural resources ar...
Magic Realism in Two Post-Apartheid Novels by André Brink
2003
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The Famished Road: Ben Okri's Family Romance?
2013
International audience; This article suggests that by breaking the cycle of the abiku in The Famished Road, Okri inserts Azaro into a lineage that turns him into a storyteller. It explores the nature of parent-child relationships in the novel from this perspective, using the concept of family romance to show how the association of family with storytelling reverberates in Okri’s writing.
Writing woman back into history. Magic realism in André Brink's Imaginings of Sand
2003
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Maģiskā reālisma semiotika filmās
2015
Maģiskais reālisms ir grūti definējams termins, bet viena no tā galvenajām iezīmēm ir dažādu sociālu un psiholoģisku aspektu izpausme. Šī maģistra darba mērķis ir filmu ‘Pusnakts Parīzē’, ‘Pī dzīve’ un ‘Putncilvēks’ semiotiska analīze, balstoties uz Kristiana Meza filmu semiotikas teorijām, tai pašā laikā analizējot arī maģiskā reālisma elementu pielietojumu šajās filmās. Analīze parāda, ka maģiskais reālisms tiek izmantots, lai runātu par tādiem aspektiem, kas maģisko reālismu cieši sasaista ar traumas diskursu. Tomēr nav novērojams, ka režisori izmantotu konkrētu sintagmātiskos tipus, lai uzsvērtu maģiskā reālisma idejas, lai gan redzams, ka ar dažu tipu palīdzību ir iespējams gan salīdzi…