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What is Magical Realism?: An Explanation of a Literary Style

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This is the most complete empirical analysis of magical realism as a literary genre. This is the first book to carefully show the ways that magical realism emerged in the twentieth century in places other than Latin America. For example, the definition is given that works must contain elements of the neo-fantastic along with re-casting history. Gabriel Garcia Marquez being the acknowledged representative author of the genre contains both in his novels. Authors like Gunter Grass, Franz Kafka, Jorge-Luis Borges, and Alejo Carpenter all contain some but not all elements of the genre. They can be considered early progenitors but not fully within the same classification as magical realism. Today in its fully developed form, magical realism is often viewed as being purposefully vague with determining the lines between fact and magic.
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Year:
2012
Publisher:
Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
Language:
English
Pages:
328
ISBN 10:
0773429255
ISBN 13:
9780773429253
ISBN:
0773429255,9780773429253

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