Magical Realism for Revolutionary Didactic Purposes in Ngugi’s Matigari

Race and Magical Realism in Young Adult Fiction

fiction are preoccupied with questioning and destabilizing the conventions and establishments of the adult world. While the main function of adolescent literature is socialization and acculturation, subversion and transgression are equally integral elements. According to Latham, magical realism offers a narrative mode through which adolescent literature can achieve the goal of “socialization th...

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

An Architecture for Retrieving and Organizing Web Resources for Didactic Purposes

This paper proposes a retrieval architecture based on clustering techniques to search the web for resources that are potentially useful for educational purposes. This architecture makes use of Formal Concept Analysis to search the web as a sort of learning object repository and returns a clustering of results based on pedagogical criteria that can help providing a rich environment for content a...

The Absence of ‘Paucity’ & ‘Momentariness’: Two New Components of Magical Realism in Günter Grass's The Tin Drum

This article presents the question whether it is correct to classify Günter Grass’s The Tin Drum as a work of magical realism. A brief scrutiny of the elements of magical realism, particularly Authorial Reticence and concept of Hesitation indicates that contrary to the advertisement of certain sources and publishers, this novel in certain circumstances, contradicts and opposes these two indispe...