while doing my research, ive got a question to ask people about... is MAGICAL REALISM under the category of characterization?? or is it a totally differnt literary technique from the characterization... As far as i know the meaning of the term "characterization"; it is a method in which authors use to tell about the characters... The many methods are depiction (describing the character), Dialogues (what characters do/are made to say), and their actions all around other characters-either minor or major-as well as their reactions.... I also wanna know the different isms that are known as literary techniques-like surrealism, magic realism, stuff like that and their simple definitions- under the category of characterization
I'm an un-schooled writer. I don't know the isms or anything, I just write. Sounds to me like "Magical Realism" refers more to the genral environment than to the characters.
Personally, I've never heard of 'magical realism' as part of characterisation. It might be a descriptive phrase used by reviewers, like something beyond surrealism, or maybe it's something that relates to stories like Harry Potter or The Hobbit or whatever..
If you're doing research, don't you know how to use Google? Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Magic realism is the weaving of just one or a very few elements of the fantastic into a story set in an otherwise realistic milieu, with a totally matter-of-fact presentation. Unlike fantasy and science fiction, the story is not primarily focused on the fantastic, its effect on the characters, or the characters' interaction with it. The author's goal is to create a milieu that combines the familiar with a bit of the unfamiliar and characters who combine a rational view of reality with an unremarkable acceptance of a bit of the supernatural. Although the term was coined in Europe, has been in use for more than eighty years, and has been applied to some U.S. and European literature, today it is used for the work of a school of primarily Latin American authors. It is said, perhaps fancifully, to describe the juxtaposition of the Indian "magical" and the European "realist" components of the spirit of the region. Two of the best known and most celebrated magic realists are Gabriel García Márquez and Jorge Luís Borges. Although magic realism affects characterization, it is not a style of characterization.
SHUT UP... its not even a homework.. i never ask help for homework; this is only a process of brainstorming where i could widen my view on a certain thing i want to research and write a commntary about.... if u have time to post a reply like that go suck ur daddy's balls, kiddo! and PEOPLE who want to be cynics rather than to help, GET the hell outta here!! i didn't post the thread just for crappy and criticizing comments and reply. If u think u won't a help at all, get the fuck out man
Well, if you're going to that, 'tis best that you learn English grammar. Right now, it's at "retard" level.
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sounds like its all fiction to me. I just saw underworld 2 at the movies. While I sincerely think it was simultenously being shot and written at the same time its still not a bad movie(c-). fyi the only other movie I know that was being shot and written at the same time is "the Big Boss" staring Bruce Lee.
Fragglerocker hopefully answered your query. Magical realism is not a character thingy, its more the milieu you set the story in, so will affect your characters actions and abilities and their characterisations a bit, but is not a central part of it. 2 books I reccomend if you are wanting to write: Orson Scott Card- "Characters and viewpoints" Dwight V Swain- "Creating characters" Both tell you what you need to learn about making up and using characterisation to tell a story. From my point of view, characterisation is very important in a story, in order to keep the reader interested and get the story moving along properly. And for various other things, but I am quite new to actually thinking analytically about how to write stories. I can have a general discussion about it all, but am not so good using technical terms.
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