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Magic Realism

Magic Realism. Kristina Klein Kelly Terrell. What is Magic Realism?. Combines a realistic portrayal of life with fantastic elements. More Elements of Magic Realism. Fantastic elements are never explained Characters never question the fantastic element Causation

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Magic Realism

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  1. Magic Realism Kristina Klein Kelly Terrell

  2. What is Magic Realism? • Combines a realistic portrayal of life with fantastic elements

  3. More Elements of Magic Realism • Fantastic elements are never explained • Characters never question the fantastic element • Causation • Distorts time; often cyclical • Union of opposites (life and death, etc.) • Irony and paradox

  4. History • Term first used by Franz Roh (1920s) • Borges’ History of Evil (1935) considered first example of Magic Realism by some • Break from Realism: rejection of old forms of literature • Become popular in 1960s and 70s

  5. Art • Magic realism used to describe American painting • 1920s-50s • Extremely realistic, unlike the literature of magic realism

  6. Film • Being John Malkovich • Big Fish • Donnie Darko • Edward Scissorhands • Field of Dreams • Harvey • What Dreams May Come

  7. Latin American Authors • Jorge Louis Borges • Isabel Allende • Juan Rulfo • Gabriel García Márquez • Julio Cortázar

  8. Gabriel García Márquez • One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)- most widely read example of magic realism • Grotesque carnival • Paradoxical bodily disgust and celebration • Ironic distance

  9. Bibliography • http://www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/MagicalRealism.html • http://www.artcyclopedia.com/history/magic-realism.html • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_realism

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