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--Boundary (ID hR+MtqUe5VBm2na8jpT/4A) Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII --Boundary (ID hR+MtqUe5VBm2na8jpT/4A) Content-type: MESSAGE/RFC822 Date: Fri, 7 Jan 1994 07:48:00 -0500 Subject: Message Delivery Report Sender: POSTMASTER@a1.mec.mass.edu MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Posting-date: Fri, 7 Jan 1994 00:00:00 -0500 Importance: normal A1-type: MAIL RE Message ID: 53621070104991/253260@MEC Generated by node: MEC Attempted delivery to: Route : @SUVM.SYR.EDU <-- Userid : lm_net Arrival date : 7-JAN-1994 01:26 This delivery failed. Failure reason was "unable to transfer". Diagnostic was "unrecognised recipient name". --Boundary (ID hR+MtqUe5VBm2na8jpT/4A) Content-type: MESSAGE/RFC822 Date: Thu, 6 Jan 1994 13:44:00 -0500 Subject: RE; magic realism Sender: "Linda Lambert ,Walnut Hill Sch 508-643-9593" <LLAMBERT@a1.mec.mass.edu> To: lm_net%suvm.syr.edu@mr.mec.mass.edu MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Posting-date: Thu, 6 Jan 1994 14:02:00 -0500 Importance: normal A1-type: MAIL To everyone interested in the discussion of magic realism: A handy reference book, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms, defines it as "a kind of modern fiction in which fabulous and fantastical events are included in a narrative that otherwise maintains the 'reliable' tone of objective realistic report. The term was once applied to a trend of German fiction of the early 1950's, but is now associated with novelists...such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gunter Grass, Milan Kundera, and Salman Rushdie. The term has also been extended to works from very different cultures, designating a tendency of the modern novel to reach beyond the confines of realism and draw upon the energies of fable, folktale, and myth, while retaining a strong contemporary relevance. The fantastic attributes given to characters in [some novels]--levitation, flight, telepathy, telekinesis--are among the means that magic realism adopts in order to encompass the often phantasmagoric political realities of the 20th century." Linda Lambert, Walnut Hill School, Natick,MA. LLAMBERT@a1.mec.mass.edu --Boundary (ID hR+MtqUe5VBm2na8jpT/4A)--