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Magical Realism

At about the middle of the 19th century (when scientific objectivity became "vogue"), the influence of many social forces caused aesthetic taste to change from romantic idealism to realism. Many writers felt that romantics with their focus on the spiritual, the abstract, and the ideal were being dishonest about life as it really was. The realists felt they had an ethical responsibility to be honest. To show life as it should be in order to show life "as it is," the body of realist literature tends to eschew the elevated subject matter of tragedy in favor of the average, the commonplace, the middle classes and their daily struggles with daily existence. This literature undertook to use ...

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often focus on people in social situations that require compromise, develop characters that are unheroic flawed and unable to be "true to themselves"--, and often emphasize external, material reality, yet recognize the complexity of human psychology.

In the mid 20th century magical realism reared its head as an influential, if not genre, style of literature, usually Latin in origin. Distinct from realism, magical realism aims to seize the paradox of the union of opposites. The realistic laws of cause and effect are suspended: whereas events in realistic novels occur for reasons that are eventually made clear and lead logically to the conclusion of the plot, in magical realism events don't follow these "normal" expectations so we often see things happening without an explanation and or reasons we can't or don't expect we are left to accept even the strange without surprise. In realistic novels, characters are given individualized names, personalities, and family histories ...

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Added: 5/16/2011 05:20:45 AM
Submitted By: jasonfong
Category: Miscellaneous
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 750
Pages: 3

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