... a reenactment of mythic time as it is experienced by the individual (Ashcroft, Griffiths, and Tiffin [1989] 2002 : 142). Copyright © 2021 by University of Oklahoma 2021 Aboriginal Australian literature literary canon formation magic realism third space Alexis Wright's second novel...

... Realism: Post-Expressionism.” In Magical Realism: Theory, History, Community , edited by Zamora Lois Parkinson Faris Wendy B. , 15 – 31 . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Citations refer to the 1995 edition . Roth Joseph . (1921) 2003a . “Going for a Walk.” In Roth...

... believe in a pre-Christian, pre-rational reality in which the good magician can sprinkle love powders and speed up happy events, and the bad magician can very nearly ruin things by brewing up pots of poisoned tea and rubbing fatal oils into brides’ braids.” A history of the term magical realism reveals...

... Safran Foer’s Everything Is Illuminated (2002), crit- ics regularly emphasize the novel’s elements of magical realism. Robert Eagle- stone (2004, 129) compares Foer’s novel to “a Bachevis Singer novel, rewritten by Borges or by Rushdie.” According to Francisco Collado...

..., and novels like it, represented a genre distinct from the magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez, and were instead a form of “hysterical realism” (41) that he later dismissively wrote off as “magical realism's next stop” (Wood 2001 ). The essay sought to simultaneously define and dismiss a genre...

... for general nonfiction. (China Men won the National Book Award for this cat- egory in 1981.) Woman Warrior's magical realism, incorporation of myth, and lack of a clear chronological structure drive much of the debate about its genre that persists to the present. The similarities between...

... is in "reality," overcom- ing Wong's earlier dreamy discourse of magical objects. Yet this moment does not signal a final consolidation or reunification of romance under the larger sign of realism. Rather, the dialectic of various narrative registers continues unabated in the novel. This moment marks...

... elsewhere, succeeds magical realism and surrealism) that would confront a reconfigured empire, natu- ralism propagates. If European naturalism is not merely a subcategory of realism but a new type of narrative emerging from within it, replacing the secure senti- mentalism of a hegemonic class...

.... . “ ‘The Princess and the Page’: An Unpublished Conrad Manuscript.” Nineteenth-Century Literature . 43 : 2 ( 1988 ), 235 - 243 Machen Arthur . Hieroglyphics: A Note upon Ecstasy in Literature . New York : Knopf , 1923 . Mann Thomas . The Magic Mountain . Tr. Woods John E. . New...

... and less of how he feels about Obi-Wan Kenobi? Superpowers are not what magic realism was about in Bulgakov, Kobo Abe, Salman Rushdie, or the Latin American flying carpets. That Michael Chabon and Paul Auster have gone graphic, that one Jonathan, Lethem, writes...

... , the introduction objects to his designation “hysterical realism” to characterize Smith's and other writer's publishing novels in the genre that literary scholarship has called encyclopedic, systems, maximalist, mega, and novels of information. The current debate in literary studies over the methods of postcritique...

.... This variation of the bildungsroman, represented in the writing of authors such as Rushdie, Naipaul, and Sobha De, combines several different techniques like magic realism and transcultural unreliable narration to capture in the fictional narrative the experience of growing up in diasporic home worlds (Helff...

... of Wellington. His work has appeared in Narrative and Modern Philology . He is at work on a book about the relationship between realism and improbability in the nineteenth-century novel. © 2017 by University of Oklahoma 2017 chance probability realism bildungsroman Anthony Trollope Works...

... robing in the accoutrements of magic. Tolkien's wholly fictional—but amazingly highly elaborated—language of Elvish is, likewise, in its perfect uselessness, an image of language reclaimed for deep meaning rather than as depressingly ordinary cultural capital acquired by studying for tests...

... merely farcical. Carter's deliberate use of allegory, however, functions in a way similar to other works of magical realism, which for many practitioners serves as a deeply politi- cal genre. Carter herself critiqued the tendency of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's non-Hispanic readers to miss...

... .” Flavorwire , December 31 . flavorwire.com/496570/2014-the-death-of-the-postmodern-novel-and-the-rise-of-autofiction . Wood James . 2000 . “ Human, All Too Inhuman: On the Formation of a New Genre; Hysterical Realism .” New Republic , July 23 . newrepublic.com/article/61361/human-inhuman...

...—as it relates to an analogous formal process here named the sensorytextual screen . The author shows how presumptions of what constitutes an abled body inflect the (dis)abled realism of Joyce’s novel, which at once depicts and mocks ableist presumptions. Representations of blindness, sight, and low vision thus...

... on Witchcraft and Magic among Shakespeare’s Contemporaries and His Immediate Successors . London : Routledge and Kegan Paul , 1962 . Comensoli Viviana . “ Witchcraft and Domestic Tragedy in The Witch of Edmonton .” Politics of Gender in Early Modern Europe: Vol. XII Sixteenth Century Essays...

... into nothing at all." The discovery of the house's dimensions represents a crack in the foundation of reality that even postmodern novelists generally assume: e.g. gravity exists, an object's inner dimensions cannot exceed its outer dimensions. The novel is not an example of magic realism or of other...

... . ---. When the World Shook (1918) . New York : Ballantine Books , 1978 ). Khouri Nadia . “ Lost Worlds and the Revenge of Realism ”. Science-Fiction Studies . (No. 30 . Vol. 10 , Part 2 ; July 1983 ), pp. 170 - 190 . Long Jeff . The Descent . London : Victor Gollancz , 1999...