Magical Realism in Emir Kusturica's Films

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

Watching films with magical content facilitates creativity in children.

Two experiments examined the possible link between magical thinking and creativity in preschool children. In Exp. 1, 4- and 6-yr.-old children were shown a film with either a magical or nonmagical theme. Results indicated that the mean scores of children shown the magical film was significantly higher than that of children watching the nonmagical film on the majority of subsequent creativity te...

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...