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The Magical Mystery Donkey Tour
<p>This creative non-fiction dissertation consists of a travel memoir written while I was enrolled in the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. It incorporates many letters I wrote in 1969. This manuscript consists of the first two parts of …
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The art of magical narrative
What is a magical narrative? How can the inconsistencies and strange repetitions in the plots of Malory's Arthurian cycle be explained? What are their purposes and why are they essential to the plot? In this dissertation, I have attempted to answer these questions by applying Anne Wilson's theory …
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Paradidomi: magical realism and the American South
… The<br/>Mathers’ Land, draws on traditions of magical realism, storytelling, memory and metafiction.<br/>The framing narrative of the novel follows Luanne Richardson, a librarian who has moved<br/>South with her new boyfriend, Kenneth Miers. As soon as they arrive in Peebles, …
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Magical Girls: Contemporary Girlhood in Children’s Fantasy
… of selected children’s fantasy texts about magical girls. My central argument is that these texts deploy tropes of magical power and transformation to prompt considerations of girlhood as constructed by the entanglement of the discursive, the girl’s body, and the natural world. Engaging with …
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Magical Musicking: Musical Communication in Contemporary Fantasy Literature
This dissertation considers the role of magical music in contemporary fantasy novels through a thematic comparative study of nine texts. It slots into a gap in the literature regarding the intermedial, ekphrastic depiction of music in the written word, as previous studies have largely focused on …
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Engaged Reading in Third Grade: A Magical Kingdom
<p>The purpose of this descriptive study was to investigate how children become engaged readers in a third grade classroom. The study focused on what a teacher did to encourage children to read and environmental factors in the classroom helped create readers. The study was holistic in nature, …
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Ubiquitous interactive displays: magical experiences beyond the screen
Ubiquitous Interactive Displays are interfaces that extend interaction beyond traditional flat screens. This thesis presents a series of proof-of-concept systems exploring three interactive displays: the first part of this thesis explores interactive projective displays, where the use of projected …
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The magical land : ecological consciousness in fantasy romance
… romance is concerned with the defense of a magical land, characterised in terms of beauty, health and balance, from some destructive threat. This concern with the health of the land reflects modern ecological consciousness and awareness of potential environmental destruction. Ecological …
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Revelations: Spirituality as Privileged Perspectivism in Magical Realist Distortions
… beliefs in the literary mode now known as magical realism in Cuban Alejo Carpentier’s The Kingdom of This World (1949), Indian-Born British and American Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses (1988), and a lesser-known novel, Household Saints (1981) by Francine Prose, an American writer. The …
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Firing the Canon: Queer Representation in the Magical Girl Genre
… genre has on audiences. More specifically, the “Magical Girl” (a subgenre of shoujo) genre’s main focus is about ordinary girls whose lives are drastically changed when they are given magical powers. One of the major plot points of magical girl media is how these girls find balance with their …
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Magical Artifice and Artificial History in the 'Roman de Perceforest'
… contains fascinating and original portrayals of magical artifice, which have intrigued scholars of Old French for many decades. It is also a peculiarly overt project of 'artificial' history, filling in a lacuna of Arthurian genealogy: King Perceforest's dynasty in pagan Britain. Under the …
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"Believe in these things": magical realism's postmodern use of religious language
Magical realism has expanded from a genre squarely located within postcolonialism to one that includes many non-colonial, Western writers such as Karen Russell and Helen Oyeyemi. Using Russell’s Swamplandia!, Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, and Oyeyemi’s The Icarus Girl as representative …
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Visual theologies in Graham Greene's 'Dark and Magical Heart of Faith'
… he described as ‘a short cut to the dark and magical heart of faith’. This is a space in which modern notions of disenchantment meets a primal need for magic – or the miraculous – and where the presentation of concepts like ‘salvation’ are defamiliarised as savage processes that test humanity. …
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Witches, Masques and Lutes: Scoring the Magical Within Masques and Plays
The world has been fascinated with witches since the beginning of human society. Witches have been documented about as early as in the Bible. Heavy areas of concentration in human history are in Europe, from the late Middle Ages until the beginning of the eighteenth century, when witch trials and …
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Invisibility Spells in the Greek Magical Papyri: Prolegomena, Texts, and Commentaries
The prolegomena examine how humans are portrayed as deliberately procuring invisibility in purportedly historical and fictional accounts and in doing so, attempt to answer key questions concerning the ritual practices found in the extant invisibility spells. How does the practitioner envision …
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Dynamic magical environments : engaging interaction based on the art of illusion
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1995.
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Horses, swine and magical birds : the role of animals in the Mabinogion.
… and separate chapters on ‘Horses’, ‘Swine’ and ‘Magical Birds and Other Enchanted Beasts’ cover general depictions of these creatures across several of the tales, along with in-depth explorations of relevant episodes and discussions of the animals’ particular functions within the narratives, as …
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