2nd Module (Part 3)

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In literature refers to stories dependent on a character’s subjective point of view. These stories are based around that character’s __ of their experiences. The context, details, and interpretive meaning of various plot points are secondary to their experience of them

Impressionism

The edges of what’s true and what’s false or what’s real and what’s fake are blurred because the reader depends entirely on the character’s feelings to understand the story. This often means that these narrators can be defined as unreliable. It is notoriously hard to comprehend and define as it depends so heavily on __.

Impressionism

It refers to the freeing up of the mind’s creative potential by tapping into the subliminal, unconscious, and/or subconscious mind. It is synonymous with unearthly, bizarre, unreal, of a dreamlike quality.

Surrealism

In literature, __ is more akin to the extraordinary. We read about people gifted with telepathy or the dead coming back to visit us. On the other hand, realism attempts to catch on the page something as close to reality as possible. It is a narrative genre that uses a straightforward inclusion of fantasy or __ in an otherwise realistic novel.

Magical Realism

It is a relatively new genre, starting in the mid 20th century. It is thought the first example was from Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier and their novel, The Kingdom of the World (1949). The author later dismissed this claim. The genre became most popular in the 1960s in Latin America when Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez published One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967).

Magical Realism

The term 'magic realism' was first used to describe a German painting style in the __ by the critic Franz Roh.

1920

In __, the term 'magical realism' was used to describe the form in literature by the critic Angel Flores in their essay titled 'Magical Realism in Spanish American Fiction'. From then on, magical realism became a sub-genre of Literary fiction.

1955

The stories of __ will have extraordinary or __ things happen in a realistic and familiar world to the reader. The lines between fantasy and reality become blurred.

Magical Realism

It is a school of philosophy that suggests humans create meaning for themselves and attempt to make rational choices in a meaningless and irrational world.

Existentialism

Human beings enter the world before forming their identity or purpose.

Existence before essence

Because the world has no meaning, individuals must make their own. This meaning is __ to the individual.

Subjectivity and authenticity

Individuals experience anxiety due to the overwhelming freedom of the world and the choices they have to make.

Anxiety and angst

There is an __ in the futile nature of attempting to form meaning and purpose in a world without either.

Absurdism

It is a school of philosophy that suggests humans must create their own meaning and purpose in a meaningless world.

Existentialism

Key characteristics of Existentialism include:

Existence before essence, Subjectivity and authenticity, Anxiety and angst, Absurdity

It began with Søren Kierkegaard in the mid-19th century but found increased popularity during the Age of Anxiety with Jean-Paul Sartre.

Existentialism

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