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Do you really believe in magic? An introduction to Magical Realism

Do you really believe in magic? An introduction to Magical Realism. Origins of Magical Realism. The term coined around 1924 by German art critic Franz Roh Expressionism vs. Post-Expressionism. Franz Marc. Rehe im Walde. What is Magical Realism?.

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Do you really believe in magic? An introduction to Magical Realism

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  1. Do you really believe in magic?An introduction to Magical Realism

  2. Origins of Magical Realism • The term coined around 1924 by German art critic Franz Roh • Expressionism vs. Post-Expressionism Franz Marc Rehe im Walde

  3. What is Magical Realism? A form of modern fiction in which fabulous and fantastic events are included in a narrative that otherwise maintains the “reliable” tone of objective narration.

  4. The Latin American Boom • Literary movement of the 1960s and 1970s • Julio Cortázar of Argentina, Carlos Fuentes of Mexico, and Gabriel García Márquez of Colombia. • Cuban Revolution • Gabriel García Márquez credited with bringing it "into vogue" after the publishing of One Hundred Years of Solitude in 1966

  5. Elements of Literary Magical Realism • 1. Familial history and relationships • 2. Life, death, and the afterlife • 3. Multiple Realities • 4. Symbolic names and characterization • 5. Plot not linear but circular or intertwined

  6. 6. Parallel, double, co-existing plots and subplots • 7. Dream, imagination, emotions and the spiritual • 8. Specific historical, geographical and cultural context • 9. Time and space—time-shifts between co-existing plots • 10. Myths, legends, and oral traditions of storytelling

  7. Elements of Artistic Magical Realism • Painting style popular in Europe and the United States from the 1920s to 1940s. • Between Surrealism and Photorealism but the use of flat tones, ambiguous perspectives and strange juxtapositions suggest an imagined or dreamed reality.

  8. Michael Parkes Gargoyles The Summit

  9. Otto Dix Through a Glass Darkly

  10. Dominique Appia Entre les Trous de la Memoire

  11. George Tooker Subway

  12. Andrew Wyeth Christina’s World Up in the Studio

  13. Magical Realism: A Problem Postcolonial Studies: anything which seems uncanny or unfamiliar to Western eyes becomes "magic", while to a native of that culture the events or ways of thinking so described are "real". Angela Flores (1955) applied the term to Spanish-American writing -Borges as master of the form and suggested Kafka as European equivalent

  14. What is Surrealism? A 20th-century artistic movement that attempts to express the workings of the subconscious and is characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtaposition of subject matter.

  15. De Chirico Song of Love The Disquieting Muses

  16. Max Ernst Oedipus Rex The Elephant Celebes

  17. Film • Pan's Labyrinth • Big Fish • Amélie • An Autumn's Tale • The Science of Sleep • El Norte • The Lake House • The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada • Across the Universe • The Milagro Beanfield War • Apocalypse Now

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