Documents tagged with magic realism

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Nineteen Months

nineteen months I hear them each night as they pass over. They are heading northwest. From bases on Darman, they scream high and whistle eerily. Under cover of dark, they follow their mission traj...
  • Peter Millington published this 12 / 08 / 2009
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British Fiction after Modernism The Novel at Mid-Century Edited by Marina MacKay and Lyndsey Stonebr

This collection of essays by leading and emergent critics of twentieth-century fiction offers a wide-ranging and provocative reassessment of the British novel's achievements after modernism. Focusi...
  • liber_te published this 11 / 15 / 2009
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And Then Put Out the Light

And Then Put Out the Light explores identity, individuality, freedom; the ties of home, family, and expectation; and what it means to be a woman. Emily Moon-Bourne defines herself by the alienat...
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  • drollerie published this 11 / 11 / 2009
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Gabriel García Márquez On Matter-of-Factness in Fantasy

An interview with Garcia explaining the techniques he uses in order to achieve magic realistic effects in his writings. You will like it.
  • muntajab! published this 11 / 01 / 2009
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A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Translated by Gregory Rabassa On the third day of rain they had killed so many crabs inside the house that Pelayo had to cross his dren...
  • muntajab! published this 11 / 01 / 2009
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Dreaming in Acrylic

A short story about a young experimental filmmaker's experience after painting directly on film. Learn more about Christine and her creative writing projects at www.christinestoddard.com
  • christinestoddard published this 10 / 24 / 2009
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The Katha Upanishad

Mr. Arthur Thelonious Sherry of 46 Rexford Circle, Birchdale, was doing tax battle again. That is to say, not he personally of course, but by way of Waynemore Bland, his accountant of many years, ...
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  • anandawolf published this 10 / 11 / 2009
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The Faces of Harriet Brown

When my mother was twelve years old, directing imaginary plays from the little outhouse roof in her tenement back yard, she knew that there was absolutely nothing wrong with the world. Standing b...
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  • anandawolf published this 10 / 11 / 2009
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Bats and Butterflies

A short story about a young woman who has recently buried her fetus in her English garden. Learn more about Christine Stoddard and her creative projects at www.christinestoddard.com.
  • christinestoddard published this 09 / 11 / 2009
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Gnomes

A short story about a naive American high school girl's literally magical experience studying abroad in France. What do gnomes have to do with it? Find out. Learn more about Christine Stoddard and ...
  • christinestoddard published this 09 / 03 / 2009
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The Turtle That Turned Into a Little Girl

A short story about a successful Washington business woman who visits a Buddhist monastery, where she encounters a Western monk and feeds turtles Cheerios for the first time in her life. Learn more...
  • christinestoddard published this 06 / 24 / 2009
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HORIZONS by Ryan Sherwood

It takes years to sculpt a person yet only a moment to tear one down. Losing a sense at a time, Gabriel learns how life is really built as well as undone. www.ryansherwood.com
  • ryansherwood published this 06 / 14 / 2009
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Spiritual Cinema Circle Releases Film on Sufism from Pakistan

KASHF: THE LIFTING OF THE VEIL a feature film from Pakistan has been picked by up by well known distributor SPIRITUAL CINEMA CIRCLE as their FEATURED FILM for their INTERNATIONAL MARKET. The film ...
  • KASHF THE MOVIE published this 05 / 20 / 2009
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Murakami & Magic Realism

Murakami Haruki is hailed as one of Japan's most successful contemporary authors, but at the same time his works are criticized as being "consumable nostalgia" (Morris, 1996, 269) and unimportant. ...
  • mortsan published this 05 / 12 / 2009
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The West: Stories from Ireland

A collection of short fiction by Eddie Stack Published in 1990, Eddie Stack's first collection of short stories received immediate critical acclaim both in the U.S. and in Ireland. The seven...
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  • tintaun published this 03 / 27 / 2009
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Bertha’s Books

A short story about a homeless alcoholic and junkie named Bertha who lives in the library; read more from Christine Stoddard at www.christinestoddard.com
  • christinestoddard published this 03 / 09 / 2009
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The Button Burial

A short story about a young German-American girl who obsessively collects buttons to avenge the deaths of all the Nazi concentration camp victims who were baked into buttons.
  • christinestoddard published this 02 / 28 / 2009
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Nude Death

A short, magical story about an artist on the verge of committing suicide---with a fantastical twist. Read more about Christine Stoddard and her creative projects at www.christinestoddard.com
  • christinestoddard published this 01 / 19 / 2009
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The Screened Thing That Killed Us

A short story about how television interferes with the love life of a married couple; magic realism. Read more about Christine Stoddard and her creative projects at www.christinestoddard.com
  • christinestoddard published this 01 / 03 / 2009
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Fictiton is Cruel

A short story about a ghostly marriage; magic realism. Read more about Christine Stoddard and her creative projects at www.christinestoddard.com
  • christinestoddard published this 01 / 03 / 2009
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