>From: Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
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>>.Robert Scholes's terminology, call fabulations,
>>>>and it's a category which includes such non-cult names as Borges, Garcia
>>>>Marquez, Grass etc. I don't like the term myself, because it implies that
>>>>such writings are fables, ie a kind of allegory, reducible to a single
>>>>meaning.
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>"magic realism" springs to mind -- it's mostly been applied to Marquez, but
>could apply equally to Borges (I'm not so sure about Grass). Originally
>from plastic art (Paula Rega? earlier?) and could take in Alastair Gray's
>+Lanark+.
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>Robin Hamilton
Robin
I wasn't the one making that claim, although I do enjoy a lot of what is
called 'magic-realism', which certainly belongs in the wide range of
'fantasy/ but not in the genre of Fantasy. In fact, I'd say that Borges
wanders through both realms, & works story hard, by cutting it to the very
bone while never leavng it quite behind. I liked Scholes SF = 'Structural
fabulation' because it allows for such a wide range of texts...
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
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Shakespeare
Drag yr mouldy old bones
Up these stairs & tell me
What you died of,
I think
I've got it
Too.
Sharon Thesen
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