Combining Magic with Realism: Ben Okri’s Writing of Africa

signs of magic realism in the novel “me of her”

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Adapted Magic A Critique of the Adaptation of Magical Realism in Iran

Magical realism was one of the trends that quickly became known, translated, and imitated in Iran's fiction. The first time the door to magic realism was opened to Iranian literature was when Ahmad Mir-alai, translated the short stories of Borges. After him, Bahman Farzaneh, with a translation of One Hundred Years of Solitude, introduced the Iranian community to magical realism. This trend used...

Critique of Critiques/An Answer to Domesticated Magic: A Critique of the Domestication of Magical Realism in Iran, Mohsen Hanif

The MAGIC Touch: Combining MAGIC-Pointing with a Touch-Sensitive Mouse

In this paper, we show how to use the combination of eye-gaze and a touch-sensitive mouse to ease pointing tasks in graphical user interfaces. A touch of the mouse positions the mouse pointer at the current gaze position of the user. Thus, the pointer is always at the position where the user expects it on the screen. This approach changes the user experience in tasks that include frequent switc...

The Effects of Sentence-Combining Instruction on the Writing of Fourth-Grade Students With Writing Difficulties

One area of writing that may be particularly problematic for less skilled writers and writers with learning disabilities is constructing well-formed sentences. In this single-subject design study, sentence-combining practice with a peerassistance component was used to improve the writing ability of 6 fourth-grade students with and without learning disabilities. The results support the use of se...