Reader's Recognition of Reality and Overlapping Worlds in the
Literary Realms of Magical Realism

k 2017

Reader's Recognition of Reality and Overlapping Worlds in the Literary Realms of Magical Realism

ZUSKINOVÁ, Barbora

Základní údaje

Originální název

Reader's Recognition of Reality and Overlapping Worlds in the Literary Realms of Magical Realism

Autoři

ZUSKINOVÁ, Barbora (703 Slovensko, garant, domácí)

Vydání

Recognition : Continuity/Discontinuity, Salzburg Easter School – PhD-Forum in the context of the Salzburg Easter Festival 2017, 3–7 April, Salzburg University, 2017

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Prezentace na konferencích

Obor

60206 Specific literatures

Stát vydavatele

Rakousko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14210/17:00096936

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

Klíčová slova česky

čtenářské poznávání; magický realismus

Klíčová slova anglicky

Reader´s Recognition; Magical Realism

Štítky

rivok

Změněno: 5. 3. 2018 16:01, Mgr. Igor Hlaváč

Anotace

V originále

The term 'anagnorisis' coined by Aristotle applies to a certain moment in art when a character undergoes sudden essential realisation. This element, when applied to literary fiction, occurs on the level of character's consciousness within the plot and it shapes and directs the narrative. In specific literary works such as those of magical realism, another form of recognition maintains an important role in absorbing the art, and that is the reader's recognition of reality and illusion in a book. After having introduced the audience to the art of magical realism, this paper will demonstrate how writers of this genre “play” with the reader by fusing two seemingly oppositional worlds – historical reality and the world of magic – and how the power of the reader's recognition affects his/her understanding of this genre which, subsequently, affects perception of reality and the world as it is. Focus will be directed at three prominent British magical realist writers Angela Carter, Salman Rushdie, and Jeanette Winterson, whose writings excel in fusing the magical with the real, offering unity and disruption at the same time. As will further be shown, this fusion creates perfect continuity of the narrative, offering fully realistic worlds with a series of crucial magical events. The essence of such continuity lies within the writers' abilities to present any extraordinary occurrence in the most unsurprising manner, leaving the decision about the book´s truthfulness entirely to the reader. As will be suggested, it is only the reader's recognition of the real and the magical which may disrupt this continuity and question the story´s authenticity.

Návaznosti

MUNI/A/1065/2016, interní kód MU

Název: Profilace výzkumných zaměření v anglofonní lingvistické a literární vědě II (Akronym: VZALL2)

Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Profilace výzkumných zaměření v anglofonní lingvistické a literární vědě II, DO R. 2020_Kategorie A - Specifický výzkum - Studentské výzkumné projekty

Citovat

ZUSKINOVÁ, Barbora. Reader's Recognition of Reality and Overlapping Worlds in the Literary Realms of Magical Realism. In Recognition : Continuity/Discontinuity, Salzburg Easter School – PhD-Forum in the context of the Salzburg Easter Festival 2017, 3–7 April, Salzburg University. 2017.

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ZUSKINOVÁ, Barbora. Reader's Recognition of Reality and Overlapping Worlds in the Literary Realms of Magical Realism. In \textit{Recognition : Continuity/Discontinuity, Salzburg Easter School – PhD-Forum in the context of the Salzburg Easter Festival 2017, 3–7 April, Salzburg University}. 2017.

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