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...Joyce Cheng Abstract This essay examines the primitivist art theories of the surrealist milieu, focusing on the concept of magic. The first part shows how, informed by early twentieth-century ethnological theories, the surrealist poets like André Breton, Louis Aragon, and Jules Monnerot evoked...

...Stephen M. Hart Ordinary Enchantments: Magical Realism and the Mystification of Narrative. By Wendy B. Faris. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2004. 323 p. University of Oregon 2006 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/70 BOOK REVIEWS...

...., the author traces the shift from the magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez in the 1970s, 80s and 90s, to the gritty realism of Roberto Bolaño, and asks what these different paradigms can tell us about stereotypical U.S. notions of Latin American cultural and political realities. Although Bolaño's...

..., this essay explores the Caribbean as an exemplary inter-American and comparatist crossroads space and analyzes several elements that enter into the diverse poetics of the region as articulated by its major writers and theorists: from chaos to transculturation, from magical realism and the “imaginary eras...

... centers on one such nodal city, Danzig/Gdańsk, in order to respond to Thomas Mann's meditation on cosmopolitanism in The Magic Mountain. Castorp is also a postcolonial response to the canonical German text; it calls for rememorizing and reimagining the presence of German history in the Polish landscape...

... in Ulysses a late attempt to negotiate a treacherous middle path between the creation of a “narrative art and magic” conscious of the “overwhelming disorder of the real world” and the disillusioned mood of modernity. On the other hand, Borges's admiring comments about Ulysses eventually become tempered...

... and material change and struggle. Ostensibly an analysis of the history and aesthetics of magical realism (which he re- names magicorealism), Postethnic Narrative Criticism outlines an agenda that challenges critical practices Aldama sees as potentially objectifying for the subjects “represented...

... and material change and struggle. Ostensibly an analysis of the history and aesthetics of magical realism (which he re- names magicorealism), Postethnic Narrative Criticism outlines an agenda that challenges critical practices Aldama sees as potentially objectifying for the subjects “represented...

... it appears—two critiques that often appear in discussions of the later avatars of magical realism. The ‘gimmick” fails because it too obviously appeals to readers, who, in turn, resent being “hailed” even as they recognize how effectively it appeals to them. 7 “Authenticity,” like “boom,” is a word...

... American writers and intellec- tuals have imagined the/a world and understood themselves in it. The book’s well-researched archive reveals a critical image of this dynamic, primarily within two landmarks of Latin American literary history: magical realism and modernismo. The book adds translation, glo...

.... Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics . Trans. Caryl Emerson. Theory and History of Literature. Vol. 8 . Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984 . Baltrušaitis, Jurgis. Anamorphic Art . New York: H.N. Abrams, 1977 . Balzac, Honore de. The Magic Skin . Trans. Ellen Marriage. Gainesville...

... at Princeton University. 36 Dalrymple’s reference to Mohammed Hanif’s A Case of Exploding Mangoes above is pertinent because it is this novel that accumulates the “magic realism” tag and is repeatedly compared to Salman Rushdie’s work (and style) in both academic and nonacademic venues. Ironically...

...” as a mental affirmation of an empirical “reality.” In tracing “the intersection of the ghostly with various media and discursive fields,” Andriopoulos begins with a chapter on Kant and “the Magic Lantern of Philosophy” (23–47). Kant’s account of speculative metaphysics as a “magic lantern of brain...

...” (“This crazy magic disgusts me he complains to his companion; “Versprichst du mir, ich soll genesen,/In diesem Wust von Raserei?” (“Do you promise that I’ll heal/In this mad frenzy?” 2337-39). However, whether or not he is cured by the magic show, Faust is in the end clearly seduced. And as he stands...

... American Fiction . Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2006 . ____. “Magical Romance/Magical Realism: Ghosts in U.S. and Latin American Fiction.” Magical Realism: Theory, History, Community . Ed. Lois Parkinson Zamora and Wendy B. Faris. Durham: Duke UP, 1995 . 497 -550. Figure 1. Diego Rivera, Pan...

... ORDINARY ENCHANTMENTS: MAGICAL REALISM AND THE MY STIFICATION OF NARRATIVE. By Wendy B. Faris. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2004. 323 p. Wendy Faris will already be known to readers as the co-editor of the significant collec- tion of essays Magical Realism: Theory, History, Community...

... ORDINARY ENCHANTMENTS: MAGICAL REALISM AND THE MY STIFICATION OF NARRATIVE. By Wendy B. Faris. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2004. 323 p. Wendy Faris will already be known to readers as the co-editor of the significant collec- tion of essays Magical Realism: Theory, History, Community...

... ORDINARY ENCHANTMENTS: MAGICAL REALISM AND THE MY STIFICATION OF NARRATIVE. By Wendy B. Faris. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2004. 323 p. Wendy Faris will already be known to readers as the co-editor of the significant collec- tion of essays Magical Realism: Theory, History, Community...

... ORDINARY ENCHANTMENTS: MAGICAL REALISM AND THE MY STIFICATION OF NARRATIVE. By Wendy B. Faris. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2004. 323 p. Wendy Faris will already be known to readers as the co-editor of the significant collec- tion of essays Magical Realism: Theory, History, Community...

... ORDINARY ENCHANTMENTS: MAGICAL REALISM AND THE MY STIFICATION OF NARRATIVE. By Wendy B. Faris. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2004. 323 p. Wendy Faris will already be known to readers as the co-editor of the significant collec- tion of essays Magical Realism: Theory, History, Community...