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Spence, Leah Mogford. "Magic words : a reconceptualization of magic realism /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9423.
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Maufort, Jessica. "Ecological Magic Realism and Magic Realist Ecopoetics: Storying Place in Postcolonial Canadian and Australasian Novels." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2018. https://dipot.ulb.ac.be/dspace/bitstream/2013/276457/5/Contrat.pdf.
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This comparative reading of contemporary Australasian and Canadian fiction privileges a reciprocal interaction between ecocriticism and magic realism within the field of postcolonial studies. My research shows that few works examine magic realism as a distinct aesthetic mode, while many ecocritical and postcolonial studies favour colonialist and pessimistic perspectives. Seeking to balance thematic and aesthetic concerns, my concepts of ecological magic realism and magic realist ecopoetics re-evaluate this still often misunderstood mode: its techniques in postcolonial narratives not only transcribe the cultural plight of the postcolonial subject, but also translate the missing ecological link between the environment and human beings. Informed by ecopoetic reflections on figurative language, Delbaere-Garant’s notion of mythic realism, and material ecocriticism, my concepts take the narrative and physical agency – or poiesis – of the non-human world as their focal point. Recognizing the dialogical web of human and non-human energies raises the issues of eco-imperialism as well as those of environmental and social justice. My thesis discusses two main configurations of ecological magic realism common to Anglo-Celtic and Indigenous texts within my corpus: synergy and crisis. These shifting interspecies relations are explored through the contexts of eco-spiritualities, scientific approaches to Nature, Nature writing, gothic-like metamorphoses, eco-apocalypse, and the Anthropocene. Rejecting dualistic worldviews, magic realism in these collaborative or competitive humans/Nature interactions remains ambivalent: on the one hand, it re-enacts human beings’ failed embeddedness in their non-human surroundings; on the other, it also re-opens the possibility of a mutually-enriching symbiosis.Doctorat en Langues, lettres et traductologie
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Viñao, Alejandro. "Magic realism in music : four electroacoustic compositions." Thesis, City University London, 1987. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/8344/.
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The subject of this thesis is not the text contained in this book, but the four electroacoustic compositions presented: Go, Hendrix Haze, Triple Concerto and Toccata del Mago. The purpose of this writing is to put forward a context in which these four compositions may be assessed. In chapter 1, I choose to present my work taking a lateral approach. Rather than discuss my background as a composer and the reasons or 'necessity' for using the electroacoustic medium to express my musical thinking, I have instead introduced a new idea to provide a wider context: Magic Realism in music. I have developed the notion that there is a musical equivalent to Magic Realism in literature, and that my work, as well as the work of other Latin American composers, may be seen in this light. Also in this chapter, I put forward the idea that the electroacoustic medium may be the natural environment or 'habitat', as it were, for the Magic Realist composer to develop. Chapters 2 to 5 present a specific framework, that is, the aesthetic point of VIew and the technical means involved in the creation of each piece. In these chapters, the compositional process is presented, from the first, often abstract ideas that trigger the imagination of a composer, to the decision taken during the final production stage in the studio. It is hoped that this specific framework will convey the necessary Information required for a preliminary assessment of the music presented, in terms of the composer's aims and the results obtained. Yet, a piece of music can be a far more complex and richer phenomenon than the composer's aims and intentions, and it must be ultimately assessed in its own terms.
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Sanchez, Maria Ruth Noriega. "Magic realism in contemporary American women's fiction." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2001. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/3502/.
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The aim of the study is to illustrate the importance of magic realism in American women's fiction in the late twentieth century. The term magic realism, which has traditionally been associated with Latin American men's writing, has been known by different, and often contradictory, definitions. It may be argued that, properly defined, it can be a valid term to describe a number of characteristics common to a corpus of work, and can be considered as an aesthetic category different from others such as Surrealism or Fantastic literature, with which it has often been compared. Furthermore, magic realism has viability as a contemporary international mode and is particularly suitable to women writers from minority ethnic groups. The present study intends to draw relevant comparative analyses of uses of magic realism that show various formal and thematic interactions between separate literary traditions. The introduction offers an overview of the different conceptions and applications of the term since its origins within the area of painting, and suggests a working definition that can be effective for intensive textual analysis of several novels. In order to offer a new approach which can enable us to move away the paradigm of magic realism from Latin America towards a more multicultural framework, the focus will be on three geographical-cultural areas: African American, Native American and Chicano/Mexican writing. The implementation of magic realist strategies in African American writing will be examined in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon (1977) and Gloria Naylor's Mama Day (1988), with a particular emphasis on the significance of African mythical background and the experience of dispossession and transference of culture. Magic realist elements in the novels Tracks (1988) by Louise Erdrich and Ceremony (1977) by Leslie Marmon Silko will be studied in the context of Native American oral tradition and cosmologies. The practice of magic realism on both sides of the U. S. - Mexico border will be explored in the novels So Far from God (1993), by the Chicana Ana Castillo, and Like Water for Chocolate (1989), by the Mexican Laura Esquivel. A description of the borderland culture in the American Southwest, as well as comparisons between North and Latin American uses of magic realism will be provided. Finally, some connections amongst the discussed literary traditions and further lines of research will be suggested.
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Audet, Josée Lyne. "Canadian magic : a study of myths in English-Canadian and Québec magic realism." Mémoire, Université de Sherbrooke, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/11143/10059.
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Résumé: Le "magic realism" existe depuis plusieurs années, mais les critiques littéraires semblent l'avoir ignoré. Seulement quelques personnes, surtout dans l'ouest canadien, semblent croire qu'il a une valeur. Même si ce genre littéraire est présent dans la littérature québécoise le seul terme français connu pour le qualifier est la traduction "réalisme magique" qui ne rend pas le sens exact du genre. Le style est plus reconnu au Canada anglais, mais a rarement été étudié. Geoff Hancock est probablement celui qui a fait le plus dans ce domaine; il a publié plusieurs articles, une collection de nouvelles et a participé à la conférence sur le réalisme magique à l'Université de Waterloo en 1985. C'est probablement à cause de sa "magie" que le réalisme magique a de la difficulté à se faire prendre au sérieux dans le monde littéraire. S'il est vrai que le message que transmet un mélange de réalisme et de magie peut sembler superficiel, il n'en reste pas moins qu'à plusieurs égards il reflète une plus grande réalité que le simple réalisme. Parce que le réalisme magique utilise les mythes et légendes d'une société, il en exprime la réalité dans toutes ses dimensions. La première question à se poser est: Qu'est-ce que le réalisme magique? Dans son livre Magic Realism, Geoff Hancock définit le réalisme magique comme étant le mélange d'éléments fantastiques à la vie de tous les jours. Ceci en est la définition la plus simple, mais le réalisme magique est beaucoup plus complexe que ça. Certains disent que le réalisme magique est plus réel que le réalisme parce qu'il examine un imaginaire qui fait intégralement partie de la réalité d'un peuple. […]||Abstract: Magic realism has existed for years, but for some reason scholars have, to a certain extent, ignored it. Only a few people seem to think it is worthy of study. One proof of this is that, although the style exists in Québec literature, there is no equivalent to the expression "magic realism" in French. Novels written in the style in Québec have been studied from every angle except this one, as if scholars in Québec do not know the style even exists, or they do not want to recognise it. They most often refer to the magical elements of these novels as the characters' imagination at play and give them a meaning according to that role. In English-Canadian literature the style is recognised but has rarely been studied. Only a few people, mostly in Western Canada, seem to be interested in the matter. Geoff Hancock is probably the one who did the most in this field; he has published several articles, a collection of short stories, and participated in the conference on magic realism at the University of Waterloo in 1985.[...]
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Adams, Jennifer. "Magic Realism in Holocaust Literature : Troping the Traumatic Real." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.521912.
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Moolla, F. Fiona. "Garciá Márquez, magic realism and language as material practice." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/18262.
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In this essay I examine the political implications of the shifts in definition of the term, "magic realism". Magic realism as it was originally employed in the Latin-American context signified a concept different to what it is currently held to suggest in metropolitan literary discourse. Magic realism in the first world has come to be regarded as a third world reflection of its own cultural dominant, postmodernism, without an acknowledgement of the alternative material realities which inform it. I investigate these ideas through an analysis of the work of two novelists, namely, the Colombian, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and the American, John Barth. In a well-known essay titled "The Literature of Replenishment", Barth names Garcia Marquez as the foremost postmodern writer. This is deceptive, I argue, since although in the essay Barth presents postmodernist fiction as a political advance on the earlier styles of realism and modernism, his own fictional practice contradicts his claim. While in the essay Barth presents postmodernism as politically significant by virtue of its "democratic impulse", his novel, Chimera, seeks to avoid the political through a flawed understanding of textuality. Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude stands in stark contrast with Chimera since it underscores the political consideration central to discourse through stressing the text's material, historical context. This distinction between the two novels is brought to light particularly through the incremental differences in their use of the techniques of "narrative circularity" and repetition. I argue, furthermore, that Garcia Marquez's emphasis on language as a material practice is, at least in part, owing to the specifics of the style of magic realism. While postmodernist fiction, one of the cultural effects of an advanced capitalism, may slide ineluctably into notions of pure textuality, magic realism, constituted as it is at the interface of pre-capitalist and capitalist modes of production, compels an acknowledgement of the material world.
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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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Chan, Siu-wai Sylvia, and 陳小惠. "Carnivalesque adventures in Kiss of the spider woman and Nights at thecircus." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B29789151.
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邱偉平 and Wai-ping Yau. "Magic realism and `root-searching' in the works of Mo Yan, Zhaxi Dawa and Han Shaogong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1996. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31213844.
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Munford, Rebecca Jane. "Re-visioning the Gothic : a comparative reading of Angela Carter and Pierrette Fleutiaux." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.273001.
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Crespo, Uribe Carolina. "Sculpting the emotional (magic) space." Thesis, Konstfack, Inredningsarkitektur & Möbeldesign, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-5861.
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I create spaces, that are presented as sets (scenographies), by working with storytelling, colour, geometry and transitions. By exploring tangible and abstract elements, I compose different atmospheres. Atmosphere is the central aesthetic category in my work, and creating an emotional experience through space is my intention. The spaces are inspired by a magic realist novel. I transpose the text into images, to then sculpt spaces with geometry, colour and light. I write new stories and descriptions about these spaces as I imagine the atmospheres to be experienced. Transitions are fundamental to my project: the transition of Latin-American references within magic realism and emotional architecture, to my own context at this moment in Sweden; the transition from text to space (and vice versa); and the transitions between spaces in my composition. These are my apparatuses in sculpting the emotional and magic space.The full thesis contains copyrighted material which has been removed in the published version.
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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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Smale, David James. "Magic realism : transformations and migrations of a disputed critical category." Thesis, Liverpool John Moores University, 2004. http://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/5786/.
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Dickerson, Brendhan Bailie. "Magical realism and subjective reality : an investigation of poetic symbolism and the development of related sculptures." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13862.
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Bibliography: leaves 58-62.To meet the requirements for the Master of Fine Art degree at the University of Cape Town my intention was to develop a series of sculptural assemblages which address a sense of subjective or poetic reality, using symbolically resonant found and fabricated objects. The body of work is to be understood as a sculptural parallel to (but not illustrative of) Magical Realist literature, in which arcane phenomena are incorporated into a narrative in order to achieve just such a sense of subjective reality.
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Spear, Keith. "A genetic model of duality in Latin American magical realism /." View online, 1995. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211998781347.pdf.
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Simonovic, Srdjan. "The politics of magic realism in Salman Rushdie's The Moor's last sigh." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ58085.pdf.
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Pedros-Gascon, Antonio Francisco. "Dialogos transatlanticos un "Boom" de Uda y Vuelta /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1187031136.
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Lewis, Abby N. "How Disassociating the Past Reassociates the Present: Distilling the Magic out of Magic Realism in Susan Power’s The Grass Dancer." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/421.
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American Indian author Susan Power’s novel The Grass Dancer is often categorized as magical realism, yet Power has stated the novel is a representation of her reality and that it is not a magical realist text. The term magical realism was first applied to the work of Latin American authors such as Gabriel García Márquez whose writing depicts magical events in a matter-of-fact narrative tone. It has since expanded to include other cultures. The question is whether it is a term that can readily be applied to the literary work of all cultures. The closest Wendy B. Faris, one of the most prominent experts on magical realism, comes to discussing the term in relation to the work of American Indian authors is by simply acknowledging Ojibwe writer Louise Erdrich’s label as a magical realist author. In order to aid Power in her rejection of the association, I delve into both her Dakota heritage and her life through the lens of biographical criticism in order to obtain a working image of her reality. By locating and examining the seeds of truth in her fiction, I explain the magical qualities of her novel in a rational and logical manner.
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Templeton-Parker, Christine. "Utopias, magic realism and rebellious spirits : films of Christine Parker 1990 to 2000." Thesis, University of Derby, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10545/582854.
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“The More You Look, the more THERE IS to see…” From Hinekaro Goes on a Picnic and Blows up Another Obelisk (Christine Parker, Oceania Parker, 1995) In the 1990s New Zealand was in the grip of free market fundamentalism, neo-liberal deregulation of the economy having begun in the mid-eighties. The Maori protest movement was a major source of societal conflict and feminism had become the ‘F’ word. This study examines my writing and directing during the 1990s in New Zealand. It is proposed that the films contributed to national and international conversations around feminism, colonial struggles, spirituality and the supernatural. It is argued that these works offer a social critique of neoliberalism and the divisive effects of it, on women in particular. In the context of this appraisal neoliberalism is understood to be a set of beliefs that support the functioning of the global free market, with minimal government regulation, except to protect the functioning of private enterprise and the ownership of private property. The short films One Man’s Meat (1991), Peach (1993), and Hinekaro Goes on a Picnic and Blows up Another Obelisk (1995) and the feature film Channelling Baby (1999) are located in an oeuvre of female, Gay, and Maori film makers and artists responding to this environment. The recurrence of alternative utopias, the use of magic realism and the representation of the spiritual and supernatural in my work are also considered in relation to other films made in the period. A case is made that the films were part of a small vanguard of films responding to the 1990s status quo by offering alternative modes of discourse to the dominant economic rationalism. Rich in visual intensity and heightened narrative tropes, such as irony and fragmented narratives, my aesthetic choices, together with recurring themes of chance and fate, agency and identity, are considered to link the films together as a coherent study. While the works are located in an evolving feminist tradition in the 1990s, their continued relevance today, particularly in relation to foregrounding marginal voices and the disruption of dominant paradigms and expectations of female behaviour and identity, underpin the claim for originality.
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Gondek, Garrison J. "This Is How You Must Always Tell the Story." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1338568493.
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Dayer, Carolina. "The conjured drawings of Carlo Scarpa: a magic-real inquiry into architectural representation." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/78389.
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This dissertation proposes a theory of architectural representation based on a close examination of Carlo Scarpa's drawing practices at the Brion cemetery located in San Vito d'Altivole, Italy. Informed by the literary practice of magic-realism and Massimo Bontempelli's thoughts on the ontology of the real, it projects Scarpa's drawing practices into larger questions of theory that parallel and intersect Giambattista Vico's philosophy of knowledge as making.
Architectural drawing is understood herein as a practice that belongs in the realm of magic. In theorizing on the intersection between magic and architectural representation, this dissertation focuses in the twentieth century, where magic in its original sense had seemingly become an obsolete tradition. Magic-realism acts as the contemporary theoretical framework to investigate the question. Such a framework is relevant because the movement acknowledged the perennial gap between how reality is defined and what reality really is. The movement intensified the notion that reality is not given but must be constructed, and its point of departure in the modern world is not something extraordinary, but that which circumvolves everyday life.
Structured in nine chapters that investigate a very specific set of drawings, Scarpa's way of working emerges through a very close reading of minimal events that become the locus for the theory proposed here. Architectural drawing understood as place of ambiguous realities offers a unique approach to architects' imagination. Such realities, however, are not a product of aleatory allegories, but they emerge within an immersive and witty approach to the work and the world.Ph. D.
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Shields, James Mark. "The lure of disillusion : toward a reappraisal of realism in religious understanding." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ29514.pdf.
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Takolander, Maria, and mikewood@deakin edu au. "Apprehending butterflies and flying beauties: Bringing magical realism to ground." Deakin University. School of Communication and Creative Arts, 2003. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20050825.154534.
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Bertoncini-Zúbková, Elena. "Mayai-waziri wa maradhi: magic realism in Euphrase Kezilahabi\'s long time unpublished short story." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-90925.
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This article will present a short story which appeared in the newspaper Mzalendo on the 15th January 1978, but it took twenty-six years before it was published in a book. Presumably it was written in the same period as both the play Kaputula la Marx and probably also as some of Kezilahabi’s poems from the second collection Karibu ndani (1988). It is a period of his most critical works. In Mayai – Waziri wa Maradhi the author blames, in a highly symbolic manner, the leading classes of his country who became rich at the expense of common citizens during ten years of Independence, symbolized by ten emaciated ghostly children.
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Bertoncini-Zúbková, Elena. "Mayai-waziri wa maradhi: magic realism in Euphrase Kezilahabi\'s long time unpublished short story." Swahili Forum 11 (2004) S. 39-44, 2004. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A11484.
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This article will present a short story which appeared in the newspaper Mzalendo on the 15th January 1978, but it took twenty-six years before it was published in a book. Presumably it was written in the same period as both the play Kaputula la Marx and probably also as some of Kezilahabi’s poems from the second collection Karibu ndani (1988). It is a period of his most critical works. In Mayai – Waziri wa Maradhi the author blames, in a highly symbolic manner, the leading classes of his country who became rich at the expense of common citizens during ten years of Independence, symbolized by ten emaciated ghostly children.
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Pooley, Simon Preston. "Alejo Carpentier, Gabriel García Márquez, Salman Rushdie : three moments in the problematics of magic realism." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/18876.
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Chapter One begins by outlining the space magic occupies in Western culture, clarifying what I mean by the term "magic". I examine aspects of indigenous American sacred traditions which have influenced and which prefigure magic realism. I review the development of the aesthetic in its Latin American context, touching on the Chronicles, the role of nationalism and erotic rhetoric, the influence of European modernism and the role of the intellectual in Latin American society. Chapter Two examines the development of a realist aesthetic in Europe since the Enlightenment. This review of its manifestations and counter-traditions in European culture is founded upon a discussion of aspects of the philosophy of Kant. I focus on the influence of Surrealism which is particularly illuminating of Latin American magic realism. The impacts of anthropology and psychoanalysis on Latin American writers are also reviewed. Chapter Two includes a review of formulations of magic realism influential in the field of English studies and concludes with a working definition which is used as a basis for the discussions of the three novels analysed in this study. Chapter Three is a study of the development of Alejo Carpentier's version of magic realism culminating in the writing of The Kingdom of this World in 1949. Through using both European and indigenous American techniques and perspectives he hoped to create a literature which could represent the complex realities of Latin American life and establish a mythology for the founding of a unified Latin American identity.
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Jansen, Anne Mai Yee. "Momentary Magic: Magical Realism as Literary Activism in the Post-Cold War US Ethnic Novel." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1365952312.
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Baker, Suzanne Lynda. "Clowning seriously: The political force of magic realism in postcolonial fiction from Australia and Canada." Thesis, Baker, Suzanne Lynda (1997) Clowning seriously: The political force of magic realism in postcolonial fiction from Australia and Canada. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 1997. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/52961/.
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The primary objective of this thesis is to demonstrate that the discursive mode of magic realism can contribute to the political force of postcolonial texts. This is achieved through detailed readings of contemporary works of fiction, written in English, from Australia and Canada. While the term ‘magic realism’ has been in use for more than seventy years, in recent times it has gained increasing currency in the critical discourses of Western literature. Commonly associated with the literature of the Latin American region, with Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude generally considered the paradigmatic example of literary magic realism, the term is now being applied to writing emerging from countries as diverse as Canada, Australia, Greece, and Norway. This thesis will argue that because of its inherent ambivalence and hybridity, the mode of magic realism represents a challenge to the authority of colonial discourses and hence its current popularity in the context of postcolonial writing.
This thesis works on two fronts. The first part examines the historical evolution of the concept of magic realism, from its origins in the art world to its appearance in the literatures of the Latin American region. Existing definitions of the term will be evaluated in order to delineate the most important characteristics of magic realist writing. By exploring the concept in this way, the thesis aims to demonstrate the relevance of the term for contemporary literary theory.
The second part of the thesis specifically addresses magic realism in the context of postcolonial writing from Canada and Australia. These nations have been chosen because of their similar postcolonial literary histories. This thesis represents the first extended study of magic realism in the context of postcolonial writing. The central claim of this thesis is that magic realism is an important politicising agent in that it challenges dominant and coercive ideologies and belief-systems at the same time as it challenges the conventions of the realist genre through which these ideologies are often perpetuated. It is argued here that the transgression of boundaries inherent in magic realism enables writers to move beyond the constrictions of commonly-accepted hierarchies. At the same time, however, by maintaining links with the discourse of realism, magic realism anchors the narrative to a ‘real’ world and thus creates a space where such hierarchies can be challenged and perhaps overturned. The thesis substantiates this claim by presenting readings of selected texts from the postcolonial settler cultures of Canada and Australia in which specific instances of magic realism add political force to the postcolonial themes and concerns which the texts explore. While magic realism has occupied a prominent position in Canadian literary theory for some time, this thesis is the first critical survey of magic realism in Australian fiction.
The special contribution which this thesis makes to postcolonial studies is its bringing together of Australian and Canadian texts to explore their use of magic realism in the context of postcolonial writing. Also, included as a part of this thesis is the first annotated critical bibliography of magic realism which, it is anticipated, will be of considerable value for other researchers in the field.
There is no doubt that we live in a world where rapid developments in technology and vast increases in scientific knowledge have meant that the limits of the ‘possible’ are constantly being challenged and redefined. This thesis will conclude by arguing that in spite of the fact that everyday ‘reality’ is becoming more and more ‘incredible’ as the borders of the possible and the impossible are subject to constant expansion and change, magic realism will continue to be an important and relevant discursive mode for exposing and critically challenging the ideologies behind the current status quo.
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Luciano, Kelli Mesquita. "Referências históricas e o realismo mágico : as confluências em "Il barone rampante", de Italo Calvino e "El Siglo de las Luces", de Alejo Carpentier /." Araraquara, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/151095.
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Banca: Érika Bergamasco Guesse Borges
Resumo: Esta tese objetiva a comparação dos romances Il barone rampante (1957), de Italo Calvino e El Siglo de las Luces (1962), de Alejo Carpentier, pois ambos apresentam confluências no que diz respeito a existência de referencias históricas, uma vez que os enredos transcorrem no século XVIII, em meio a Revolução Francesa e aos ideais iluministas. Além disso, as duas narrativas apresentam indicações de figuras da história oficial assim como a indicação de Instituições históricas. É fundamental destacar que nos dois romances, há acontecimentos insólitos que se referem ao realismo mágico, em Il barone rampante, o protagonista Cosimo vive um estilo de vida incomum sobre as árvores, onde estuda, tem atitudes altruístas e acredita nos ideias revolucionários, enquanto em El Siglo de las Luces, o protagonista é Víctor Hugues que foi inspirado em uma figura da história oficial, um francês que foi comerciante e responsável por disseminar a ideologia revolucionária na região das Antilhas. Sua chegada a Havana, movimenta ativamente a vida dos primos Esteban, Carlos e Sofía, que passam a nutrir interesses pela Revolução, fazem diversos estudos e leituras de autores filosóficos e são moldados pelo pensamento racionalista. No romance carpentiano, Esteban é curado da asma graças a rituais curandeiros fator que pode ser associado ao realismo maravilhoso. Em outros momentos, buscamos evidenciar alguns aspectos fabulistas em Il barone rampante e do barroquismo latino americano em El Siglo de las Luc... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo)
Abstract: This thesis aims at the comparison of the novels Il barone rampante (1957), by Italo Calvino and El Siglo de las Luces (1962), by Alejo Carpentier, since both have confluences regarding the existence of historical references, since the entanglements both of which take place in the eighteenth century, amidst the French Revolution and the Enlightenment ideals. In addition, the two narratives present indications of figures of the official history as well as the indication of Historical Institutions. It is important to note that in the two novels, there are unusual events that refer to magical realism, in Il barone rampante, the protagonist Cosimo lives an unusual lifestyle on the trees, where he studies, has altruistic attitudes and believes in revolutionary ideas, while in El Siglo de las Luces, the protagonist is Víctor Hugues who was inspired by an official history figure, a french who was a merchant and responsible for spreading the revolutionary ideology in the Antilles region. His arrival in Havana actively moves the lives of the cousins Esteban, Carlos and Sofía, who begin to nurture interests for the Revolution, do various studies and readings of philosophical authors and are shaped by rationalist thinking. In the Carpentian novel, Esteban is cured of asthma thanks to ritual healers, factor that can be associated with magical realism. At other times, we tried to evidence some fabulous aspects in Il barone rampante and the Latin American baroque in El Siglo de las Luces. ... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)
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Gardner, Barbara J. "Speaking Voices in Postcolonial Indian Novels from Orientalism to Outsourcing." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2012. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_diss/85.
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In Orientalism, Edward Said identified how the Westerner “spoke for” and represented the silent Orient. Today with the burgeoning call-center business with India, it seems that the West now wants the Orient to speak for it. But is the voice that Western business requires in India a truly Indian voice? Or is it a manipulation which is a new form of the silencing of the Indian voice? This dissertation identifies how several Postcolonial Indian writers challenge the silence of Orientalism and the power issues of the West through various “speaking voices” of narratives representative of Indian life. Using Julie Kristeva’s abjection theory as a lens, this dissertation reveals Arundhati Roy as “speaking abjection” in The God of Small Things. Even Roy’s novelistic setting suffers abjection through neocolonialism. Salman Rushdie’s narrative method of magic realism allows “speaking trauma” as his character Saleem in Midnight’s Children suffers the traumas of Partition and Emergency as an allegorical representation of India. Using magic realism Saleem is able to speak the unspeakable. Other Indian voices, Bapsi Sidhwa, Khushwant Singh, and Rohinton Mistry “speak history” as their novels carry the weight of conveying an often-absent official history of Partition and the Emergency, history verified by Partition surviror interviews. In Such a Long Journey, Mistry uses an anthrozoological theme in portraying issues of power over innocence. Recognizing the choices and negotiations of immigrant life through the coining of the word (dis)assimilation, Jhumpa Lahiri’s writings are analyzed in terms of a “speaking voice” of (dis)assimilation for Indian immigrants in the United States, while Zadie Smith’s White Teeth “speaks (dis)assimilation” as a voice of multiple ethnicites negotiating immigrant life in the United Kingdom. Together these various “speaking voices” show the power of Indian writers in challenging the silence of Orientalism through narrative.
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Duncanson, Cassie. "Scattered Sandpipers." PDXScholar, 2018. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4504.
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Scattered Sandpipers is a Young Adult novel excerpt. Seventeen-year-old Bee, lost her mother two years ago in a car crash. As she denies and represses her grief, strange and magical things begin to happen.
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Sasser, Kimberly Danielle Anderson. "Magically strategized belonging : magical realism as cosmopolitan mapping in Ben Okri, Cristina García, and Salman Rushdie." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/5696.
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Since literary magical realism exploded out of Latin America and into international critical attention in the mid twentieth century, the limbs of its narrative genealogy continue to be sketched in both lower and higher than the branch bearing the immense impact of el boom. Perhaps the most often cited figure from magical realism’s pre-Latin American and pre-literary phase is Franz Roh, who deployed the term in 1925 to describe the German painting movement Magischer realismus, as critics such as Irene Guenther, Kenneth Reeds, Wendy Faris, and Lois Parkinson Zamora have shown. After having migrated transatlantically, magical realism mutated formally in the process whereby it came to be embodied in Latin American literature. Following the boom of the 1950s and 60s magical realism began to be recognized as a global phenomenon. Literary magical realism has now been written by authors from innumerable countries of origin and thus is not the sole property of Latin Americans, as Alejo Carpentier might have us believe. Erik Camayd-Freixas, who himself contends for the delimitation of a distinct Latin American magical realism, still concedes that the mode is “today’s most compelling world fiction” (583). In addition to Carpentier, Miguel Ángel Asturias, Gabriel García Márquez, and Isabel Allende, among other significant Latin American magical realists, key contributions to the mode’s corpus have since been recognized in the works of Jack Hodgins, Louise Erdrich, Robert Kroetsch, and Toni Morrison. Beyond the American continents, Wenchin Ouyang points out: “[Magical realism] is in Arabic, Chinese, English, German, Italian, Japanese, Persian, Portuguese, Spanish, Tibetan, and Turkish, to name but a few languages”. One recent example of magical realism is Salman Rushdie’s novel, The Enchantress of Florence (2008), analyzed in this study. Considering this novel in conjunction with the landmark 1949 publication of Carpentier’s The Kingdom of This World (El reino de este mundo), including its famous prologue, these two magical realist texts represent a significant development in magical realist authorship among East and West Indies. Furthermore, they form two temporal poles between which there is a nearly sixty-year time span, a figure that does not include texts preceding the Latin American boom.
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Pimenta, Raul Dias. "Entre fronteiras: gótico, realismo mágico e slipstream. o zumbi que se alimenta dos gêneros." Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2017. http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/7797.
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In 1989 the north-american Bruce Sterling revealed in an interview that he found a new category of a literary genre which combines others genres then forming what he called Slipstream. This mode doesn’t follow a unique standard including even Science-fiction, Gothic and Magic Realism in one work. Since then, twenty years later after his revelation about Slipstream the mode hasn’t become a literary genre yet and littles has been discussed about the present subject. However, there are several questions and suppositions about what it could really be Slipstream and its characteristics to achieve the literary genre title. Although there are few affirmations around the topic, this present work aims to outline the contact point between slipstream and Magic Realism. Genre which shares much in characteristics with the present mode and also to define if Slipstream isn’t another name to Magic Realism. For such proposition, we have taken the literary character undead or nowadays called zombie for analysis. Therefore, we believe that the presence of this literary figure corroborate to the manifestation of the components elements and events of the genres here presented. As subject of analysis, we have taken the works “A case of the stubborns” (1984) by Robert Bloch, “Sea Oak” (1997) by George Saunders and “Incidente em Antares” (1970) by Érico Veríssimo. As theoretical support, Fred Botting (1996), H. P. Lovecraft (2007), Nöel Carroll (1999), about the horror in literature and to connect with the Magic Realism and the Magical Reality, Alejo Carpentier (1987), Irlemar Chiampi and William Spindler (1993)
Em 1989 o norte-americano Bruce Sterling revelou, em entrevista, ter encontrado uma nova categoria de gênero literário que combinava outros gêneros formando, então, o que ele chama de slipstream. Esta modalidade não segue padrão único, podendo até mesmo incluir ficção científica, gótico e realismo mágico em uma só obra. Desde então, mais de vinte anos após sua revelação sobre o slipstream, a modalidade ainda não se transformou em gênero e pouco tem se discutido sobre o presente assunto. No entanto, existem várias perguntas e suposições sobre o que realmente seria slipstream e suas características para alcançar o título de gênero literário. Embora existam poucas afirmações acerca do tema, este presente trabalho visa delinear os pontos de contato entre o slipstream o Realismo Mágico. Gênero este que muito divide em características com a modalidade em questão e também definir se slipstream não seria outro nome para Realismo Mágico. Para tal proposta, tomamos a personagem literário morto-vivo ou atualmente chamado de zumbi para análise. Pois acreditamos que a presença desta figura literária corrobora para a manifestação de elementos e eventos componentes dos gêneros aqui tratados. Como objeto de estudo, tomamos as obras “A case of the stubborns” (1984) de Robert Bloch, “Sea Oak” (1997) de George Saunders e Incidente em Antares (1970) de Érico Veríssimo. Como suporte teórico, utilizaremos as colocações de Fred Botting (1996), H. P. Lovecraft (2007), Nöel Carroll (1999), com o tema do horror na literatura e para a conexão ao Realismo Mágico e o Real Maravilhoso, usaremos as afirmações de Alejo Carpentier (1987), Irlemar Chiampi e William Spindler (1993).
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Luciano, Kelli Mesquita [UNESP]. "Referências históricas e o realismo mágico: as confluências em "Il barone rampante", de Italo Calvino e "El Siglo de las Luces", de Alejo Carpentier." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/151095.
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Esta tese objetiva a comparação dos romances Il barone rampante (1957), de Italo Calvino e El Siglo de las Luces (1962), de Alejo Carpentier, pois ambos apresentam confluências no que diz respeito a existência de referencias históricas, uma vez que os enredos transcorrem no século XVIII, em meio a Revolução Francesa e aos ideais iluministas. Além disso, as duas narrativas apresentam indicações de figuras da história oficial assim como a indicação de Instituições históricas. É fundamental destacar que nos dois romances, há acontecimentos insólitos que se referem ao realismo mágico, em Il barone rampante, o protagonista Cosimo vive um estilo de vida incomum sobre as árvores, onde estuda, tem atitudes altruístas e acredita nos ideias revolucionários, enquanto em El Siglo de las Luces, o protagonista é Víctor Hugues que foi inspirado em uma figura da história oficial, um francês que foi comerciante e responsável por disseminar a ideologia revolucionária na região das Antilhas. Sua chegada a Havana, movimenta ativamente a vida dos primos Esteban, Carlos e Sofía, que passam a nutrir interesses pela Revolução, fazem diversos estudos e leituras de autores filosóficos e são moldados pelo pensamento racionalista. No romance carpentiano, Esteban é curado da asma graças a rituais curandeiros fator que pode ser associado ao realismo maravilhoso. Em outros momentos, buscamos evidenciar alguns aspectos fabulistas em Il barone rampante e do barroquismo latino americano em El Siglo de las Luces. No final da tese, apontamos certas características que aproximam ainda mais Il barone rampante de El Siglo de las Luces, visto que são abordadas temáticas em comum nos dois romances, como, por exemplo, a busca pelo conhecimento, a solidão, a frustração, os avanços tecnológicos e a esperança em um mundo melhor por meio do incentivo à educação, ao conhecimento e através de movimentos revolucionários. Em outras palavras, há o tratamento de temas importantíssimos como esses, por meio de uma revisitação ao passado, no caso, à Revolução Francesa serve para levar o leitor à reflexão sobre os contextos que os autores viveram no século XX, a exemplo do fascismo e dos movimentos de resistência na Itália; da ditadura em Cuba bem como o triunfo da Revolução Cubana, ou seja, movimentos de resistência que necessitaram da união coletiva para que houvesse de fato mudanças benéficas para população, condição fundamental que permeia o modo de agir dos personagens das obras analisadas. Esses movimentos até os dias atuais são imprescindíveis para que haja transformações concretas na sociedade em torno da igualdade, do respeito e da aplicação dos direitos humanos para todos.
This thesis aims at the comparison of the novels Il barone rampante (1957), by Italo Calvino and El Siglo de las Luces (1962), by Alejo Carpentier, since both have confluences regarding the existence of historical references, since the entanglements both of which take place in the eighteenth century, amidst the French Revolution and the Enlightenment ideals. In addition, the two narratives present indications of figures of the official history as well as the indication of Historical Institutions. It is important to note that in the two novels, there are unusual events that refer to magical realism, in Il barone rampante, the protagonist Cosimo lives an unusual lifestyle on the trees, where he studies, has altruistic attitudes and believes in revolutionary ideas, while in El Siglo de las Luces, the protagonist is Víctor Hugues who was inspired by an official history figure, a french who was a merchant and responsible for spreading the revolutionary ideology in the Antilles region. His arrival in Havana actively moves the lives of the cousins Esteban, Carlos and Sofía, who begin to nurture interests for the Revolution, do various studies and readings of philosophical authors and are shaped by rationalist thinking. In the Carpentian novel, Esteban is cured of asthma thanks to ritual healers, factor that can be associated with magical realism. At other times, we tried to evidence some fabulous aspects in Il barone rampante and the Latin American baroque in El Siglo de las Luces. At the end of the thesis, we point out certain characteristics that approach even more the Il barone rampante to El Siglo de las Luces, since themes are discussed in common in both novels, such as the search for knowledge, loneliness, frustration, technological advances and hope for a better world by encouraging education, knowledge and revolutionary movements. In other words, there is the treatment of such important subjects as a revision of the past, in this case the French Revolution, serves to lead the reader to reflect on the contexts that the authors lived in the twentieth century, such as fascism and Resistance movements in Italy; of the dictatorship in Cuba, as well as the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, that is, resistance movements that necessitated a collective union so that there was indeed beneficial changes for the population, a fundamental condition that permeates the behavior of the characters in the analyzed literary works. These movements until nowadays are essentials for concrete transformations in society around equality, respect and the application of human rights for all.
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Silva, Fabiola Maceres. "As (des)ilusões do (ir)real na ficção de Murilo Rubião /." Araraquara, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/115788.
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Orientador: Maria Célia de Moraes LeonelBanca: Karin Volobuef
Banca: Roxana Guadalupe H. Alvarez
Resumo: A literatura de Murilo Rubião, introdutora do insólito no Brasil, abriga temas essenciais para a compreensão da modernidade brasileira do século XX. Analisar o sobrenatural em sua obra implica ainda examinar temas referentes à condição humana, que envolvem necessariamente a relação texto/contexto e também observar como isso é veiculado na narrativa em termos de representação. Tendo como pressuposto o relevante papel do escritor no seu contexto social e a importância da criação literária quando considerada a partir de certas necessidades de representação do mundo, nosso intuito com a pesquisa é problematizar a construção formal do insólito na ficção do autor, utilizando as acepções do neofantástico, realismo mágico e do absurdo, na direção de um diálogo entre os gêneros. Desta forma, a pesquisa tem por finalidade a análise da estruturação dos elementos insólitos como mecanismo de representação simbólica do homem moderno, em seis contos do autor, observando as especificidades do contexto histórico em que se situam as narrativas. A saber, os contos selecionados para a análise são: "O ex-mágico da Taberna Minhota", "O pirotécnico Zacarias", "Teleco, o coelhinho", "Os dragões", "O edifício" e "A cidade". O embasamento teórico para o trabalho é composto de ensaios críticos sobre o autor como os de Arrigucci Jr, Jorge Schwartz, Nelly Novaes Coelho, José Paulo Paes, entre outros. Também fazem parte do embasamento, estudos sobre o fantástico, o neofantástico, o realismo mágico e o absurdo, como os de Tzvetan Todorov, Jean Paul Sartre, Jaime Alazraki, David Roas, William Spindler e Martin Esslin. Além disso, são utilizadas proposições teóricas sobre as categorias da narrativa como as de Gérard Genette
Abstract: Murilo Rubião's literature, pioneer of the uncommon in Brazil, contain essential themes for understanding the Brazilian modernity of the twentieth century. Analyzing the supernatural in his work also involves examining issues related to the human condition, which necessarily involve the relationship text / context and also observe how it is conveyed in the narrative in terms of representation. Assuming the relevant role of the writer in his social context and the importance of literary creation when seen from certain requirements of representing the world, our aim with the study is to discuss the construction of the formal neofantastic, magical realism and absurd in the author fiction, toward a dialogue between genres. Thus, the research main objective is to analyze the structure of the uncommon elements as mechanisms for symbolic representation of the modern man, in six tales of the author, observing the specificities of the modern context in which the narratives are situated. Namely, the stories selected for analysis are: "O ex-mágico da Taberna Minhota", "O pirotécnico Zacarias", "Teleco, o coelhinho", "Os dragões", "O edifício" e "A cidade". The theoretical basis for the work is composed of critical essays about the author such as Arrigucci Jr, Jorge Schwartz, Nelly Novaes Coelho, José Paulo Paes, among others. Also, part of the fantastic, magical realism and absurd's studies, such as Tzvetan Todorov, Jean Paul Sartre, Jaime Alazraki, David Roas, William Spindler and Martin Esslin. Moreover, theoretical propositions are used on categories of narrative such as Gérard Genette
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Trapp, Carisa Ann. "El realismo mágico en pedro páramo, los recuerdos del porvenir y oficio de tinieblas." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1156780054.
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Luciano, Kelli Mesquita. "Referências históricas e o realismo mágico em Il barone rampante, de Italo Calvino /." Araraquara, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/91522.
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Orientador: Claudia Fernanda de Campos MauroBanca: Karin Volobuef
Banca: Adriana Lins Precioso
Resumo: Esta Dissertação objetiva a análise do romance "Il barone rampante", que faz parte da trilogia I Nostri Antenati (1950-1960), em que também estão reunidos os romances "Il visconte dimezzato" e "Il cavaliere inesistente", de Italo Calvino (1923-1985). Buscamos analisar num primeiro momento, alguns fatores que influenciaram a escrita calviniana, como os movimentos de Resistência na Itália, que visavam lutar contra as atrocidades da Primeira e da Segunda Guerra Mundial e do fascismo, como também algumas características da estrutura da fábula, que podem ser identificadas no romance estudado, a partir das atitudes de benfeitor de Cosme que o qualificam como um herói, pois passa por diversas dificuldades e lutas em favor do bem comum de todos. Na segunda parte da Dissertação, evidenciamos algumas referências históricas feitas à Revolução Francesa e ao Iluminismo e seus pontos de intersecção com o contexto histórico, em que Calvino viveu período, que envolveu Guerras e movimentos de grande repercussão e repressão como: o fascismo, o nazismo e o socialismo; menções de espaços reais e de Instituições históricas e de referências a figuras históricas como: Napoleão Bonaparte, Rousseau, Diderot, entre outros. No final da Dissertação, apontamos certas características que aproximam Il barone rampante a variedade do realismo mágico metafísico, como, por exemplo, a decisão do protagonista, Cosme de morar sobre as árvores, entre outros eventos. Além disso, comentamos algumas significações alegóricas em relação ao contexto histórico da narrativa, que remete na realidade ao século XX, época em que Calvino viveu e sobre a alegoria do intelectual Cosme a partir da sua mudança de ponto de vista sobre as árvores, que induzem a reflexão pela necessidade da valorização da educação e pela... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo)
Abstract: This thesis aims to analyze the novel "Il barone rampante," which is part of the trilogy I nostri Antenati (1950-1960), who are also gathered in the novels "Il visconte dimezzato" and "Il cavaliere inesistente" by Italo Calvino (1923-1985).We analyze at first, some factors that influenced the writing calviniana, as movements of Resistance in Italy, aimed at fighting against the atrocities of the First and Second World War and fascism, but also some characteristics of the structure of the fable, which can be study identified the novel, from the attitudes of benefactor of Cosme which qualify as a hero, which goes through many hardships and struggles in favor of good all in common. In the second part of the dissertation, we noted some historical references made in the novel, about the French Revolution and the Enlightenment and their points of intersection with the historical context in which Calvino lived, involving wars and movements of great impact and repression as fascism, nazism and socialism; terms of actual areas and historical institutions and references to historical figures as Napoleon, Rousseau, Diderot, and others. At the end of the dissertation, we point out certain features that bring Il barone rampante variety of metaphysical magic realism, for example, the decision of the protagonist, Cosme living on trees, and other events. In addition, we discuss some allegorical meanings in relation to the historical context of the narrative which actually refers to the twentieth century, a period in which Calvin lived and about allegory of the intellectual Cosme from his change of view on the trees, which lead to reflection by need for enhancement of education and the maintenance of hope in human progress and technology to living in a more just and egalitarian society. Finally, we comment on symbolic elements such as tree space ... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)
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Hedkvist, Tobias. "Locating the 'inbetween' : Hybridity, Magic and Identity in Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Sektionen för humaniora (HUM), 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-15772.
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Mellas, Michael John. "Constructing multiple realities on stage conceiving a magical realist production of José Rivera's Cloud tectonics /." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1218129542.
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Giguère, Marielle. "Julien Gracq et le réalisme magique." Thesis, McGill University, 2007. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=101879.
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This thesis consists in a comparison between the novels of Julien Gracq and the magical realism. More precisely, our research's main concern is about the forms of strangeness developed throughout the works of the author. We wish to demonstrate how elements of the texts---space, time, metafiction and intertextuality---generate the appropriate atmosphere for the emergence of magic. We think that, whether or not the representation includes magic, it maintains itself on the edge of the fantastic, partly because the images constantly suggest its imminence. Our intention is thus to prove that the feeling of strangeness that emerges from Gracq's fiction is a latent or embryonic form of magical realism.
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Garcia, Hugo. "El realismo mágico en la vida de Tita de la Garza (análisis histórico de la novela mexicana Como agua para chocolate) /." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2001. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=1970.
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Smuts, Jacqui. "Die destabilisering van binêre geslagsopposisies by wyse van magiese realisme in Reza de Wet se drama 'Breathing in'." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2008. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-10162009-123352.
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Byrnes, Sionainn Emily. "Extraordinary Objects, Exceptional Subjects: Magic(al) Realism, Multivocality, and the Margins of Experience in the Works of Tom Robbins." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Humanities, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/10816.
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Through a critical examination of the works of Tom Robbins, this thesis interrogates the historical evolution and appropriation of the magic(al) realist tradition. In so doing, it situates Robbins’ writing within the framework of postmodernism, and explores the ontological implications inherent in Robbins’ use of magic(al) realist concepts and conventions. With a specific emphasis on the notion of cultural consciousness, this thesis analyzes the object- oriented cosmologies embodied and espoused in three of Robbins’ novels: Still Life with Woodpecker (1980), Skinny Legs and All (1990), and B is for Beer (2009). It unpacks the ideological figuration of various textual devices evident in Another Roadside Attraction (1971) and Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1976) – particularly the gendered use of unreliable narrators – and, with reference to Jitterbug Perfume (1984), relates Robbins’ appropriation of the magic(al) realist tradition to the American counterculture movement of the 1960s and 70s. Employing poststructuralist, feminist, ecofeminist, and postcolonial discourses, this thesis ultimately seeks to position Robbins’ writing within the context of a radical emancipatory politics that views (and uses) literature as an ideological space in which to challenge, reinterpret, and democratize Western metanarratives.
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Granger, Mireille. "Maupassant et le realisme fantastique." Thesis, McGill University, 2001. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=32912.
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Generally labelled as fantastic in nature, Maupassant's short stories pose a serious problem. The very term "fantastic" is itself highly ambiguous; there have been many attemps to define what makes a work of literature "fantastic" in nature, but none of these attempts have managed to capture the essence of the genre in its entirety.What is most striking in Maupassant's narratives is precisely his rejection of the fantastic almost as soon as it occurs. Contrary to the more traditional literature of the fantastic, his narratives remain anchored in a realistic world, rendering the reader's experience even more unsettling. In a sense, Maupassant manages to tame the fantastic by normalizing it.
We intend, therefore, to position our work at the meeting point of these two concepts---realism and fantasy---in order to determine if the definition of "fantastic realism" we will be striving for can be verified through our analysis of the following stories: "Apparition", "La chevelure", "Le Horla" (first version), "La main", "La peur", "Magnetisme" and "Sur 1'eau". (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
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Oliveira, Maria Amélia de Jesus. "REALISMO FANTÁSTICO E MÁGICO EM O DONO DO MAR DE JOSÉ SARNEY." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás, 2015. http://localhost:8080/tede/handle/tede/3237.
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Previous issue date: 2015-04-01This study concerns the identification and the analysis of the characteristics of this fantastic work in O dono do mar, José Sarney, as the highlight and all the supernatural and magical dream like atmosphere that surrounds the story, giving it an aspect linked to unusual dense and terror, that soon will characterize the work as a narrative that leans towards Realism fantastic and Realism magical. We will draw for both, the theorist Tzvetan Todorov to our theoretical framework, especially in his Introduction to Fantastic Literature and also some of his scholars. We chose to work with this work by presenting high range around our goals and purpose, as evidenced in passages that prove the theory regarding the dialogic interface.
Este estudo concerne à identificação e à análise das características do fantástico presente na obra O dono do mar, de José Sarney, com destaque ao sobrenatural e fantástica e mágica que envolve a história, atribuindo-lhe um aspecto denso ligado ao insólito e ao terror, que permitirão caracterizar a obra como narrativa que tem traços tanto do Realismo Fantástico quanto do Realismo Maravilhoso. Recorreremos, para tanto, às formulações desenvolvidas por Tzvetan Todorov, sobretudo, em Introdução a Literatura Fantástica e também a alguns de seus estudiosos. Optamos por estudar o romance O dono do mar, por se tratar de uma obra que apresenta variedade de elementos literários pertinentes aos nossos objetivos e propósitos.
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Boswell, Rebecca C. "Twelve Hearts of Clay and Selected Stories." VCU Scholars Compass, 2012. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/320.
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This thesis contains what I consider to be the best of my work over the course of my three years in the MFA program at Virginia Commonwealth University, and it is meant to demonstrate my range of ability as a creative writer. Included are a portion of my unfinished novel, Twelve Hearts of Clay, as well as a few of my favorite short stories. "Calluses," my foray into experimental writing, is perhaps the most completed piece in the collection, having found publication in the October 2010 issue of Blue Crow Magazine, an Australian literary journal. "Dead Baby Jokes," the short short piece included here, was also published, in Front Porch Flash Fiction, a local anthology from Sink/Swim Press. "An Epic Masterpiece, TBD" veers into the realm of the absurd and "Grace" is my attempt at straightforward realism. "The Dragon's Daughter" is a modern retelling of a medieval folktale. I see the novel, Twelve Hearts of Clay as the heart of the thesis. The concept for the novel came to me slowly, and over the course of a number of drafts, beginning in the Fall of 2010 in Dr. Cokal's Novel Writing Workshop. I've included the first fifty pages in sequence, and then I jump forward in the narrative to events coming down the line. Included are four modern fairy tales that will mark the four different sections of the novel and also serve as a fantastic versions of the main characters' histories and backstories. My novel and many of the stories included here place the magical world of myth and folktale right alongside the realistic world we know and see daily, and elements of each world can seep into the other. These stories are meant to draw on the reader's pre-existing understanding of narrative as a way of processing the world, something I think we learn in the form of childhood stories and fairy tales. The novel's themes and concepts of art, troubled romance, constructed identities, fairy tales and folklore are all reflected in the short stories. Each story takes a single theme and explores it outside of the context of the novel, which is, I believe, a result of the way I've been working, switching back and forth between the novel and stories, depending on which project was frustrating me the least at that moment, but ruminating always on the same questions and concerns.
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Jacobs, Emily. "Excerpts From the Eva Crane Field Diary: Stories." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2010. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28436/.
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Male or female, young or old, the characters of this collection inhabit a liminal space of trauma and social dislocation in which elements of the real and fabulous coexist in equal measure. The ghosts that populate the stories are as much the ghosts of the living, as they are the ghosts of the dead. They represent individual conscience and an inescapable connection to the past.
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Rodriguez, Ana Carolina Vieira. "The uses of magic realism in Hollywood adaptations of Allende's The house of the spirits and Esquivel's Like water for chocolate." Florianópolis, SC, 2001. http://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/79605.
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O objetivo deste estudo é investigar como a estética do realismo mágico, que está diretamente ligada ao contexto sócio-político da América Latina, foi traduzida para uma narrativa Hollywoodiana. O trabalho realiza uma análise comparativa entre os romances do gênero realismo mágico A Casa dos Espíritos (1982), de Isabel Allende, e Como Água Para Chocolate (1989), de Laura Esquivel, e as adaptações dos livros ao cinema. Uma análise dos dois filmes, A Casa dos Espíritos (1993), de Bille August, e Como Água Para Chocolate (1993), dirigido por Alfonso Arau, em relação a elementos cinematográficos tais como mise-en-scene (cenário, iluminação, figurino e personagens), enredo, narrativa, motivação e linhas de ação nos leva à conclusão de que Arau obteve mais sucesso do que August ao transferir a estética do realismo mágico para o cinema.
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Hatjakes, Alison. "Re: magical realism : the remythification, reconception, and regendering of narrative in Alejo Carpentier's El reino de este mundo, Gabriel García Marquez's cien años de soledad, and Isabel Allende's La casa de los espíritus /." abstract and full text PDF (UNR users only), 2008. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Nevada, Reno, 2008."August, 2008." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 86-88). Library also has microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : ProQuest Information and Learning Company, [2009]. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. Online version available on the World Wide Web.