A question
May. 3rd, 2006 12:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowedge613so I have been doing this tutorial with a couple of cool students and Myhill this semeter on Urban Fantasy. we have been indulging in "the intelectual masturbation that can pass as scholorship": Genre fromation.
so now it is our last week of reading and the title for this week is "Magical Realism". We are reading Kafka, "the old man with enormous wings" and a short story by roald dahl. So was I was reading "Metamorphose" I got confused what the differnce between urban fantasy and magical realism actually is.
The bedford guide to literature was not helpful, nor "A Handbook to Literature": they basically say it is the same idea that we have been working with all semester: a juxtiposistion between the familar everyday world and fantastic/ dream/ fairlytale/ mythic elements.
Anyone want to take a stab at what the doffernece is, if any, between Urban Fantasy and Magical Realism?
Anyone?
so now it is our last week of reading and the title for this week is "Magical Realism". We are reading Kafka, "the old man with enormous wings" and a short story by roald dahl. So was I was reading "Metamorphose" I got confused what the differnce between urban fantasy and magical realism actually is.
The bedford guide to literature was not helpful, nor "A Handbook to Literature": they basically say it is the same idea that we have been working with all semester: a juxtiposistion between the familar everyday world and fantastic/ dream/ fairlytale/ mythic elements.
Anyone want to take a stab at what the doffernece is, if any, between Urban Fantasy and Magical Realism?
Anyone?
