FAST FACTS
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"Fantasy writer" (Richards & Almond, 2002) "Creator of magical realism" (Flood, 2010)
"I'm just me" (Naughtie & Almond, 2012, 8:13) "I'm a realist" (Richards & Almond, 2002)
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Faris, W. B. (2004). Ordinary enchantments: Magical realism and the remystification of narrative. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press.
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"Magic on a heart level"
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"Gentle mysticism"
(Richards & Almond, 2002)
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"Everyday world magic"
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“I think the spiritual elements in the books are elements that, in a sense, I’m not aware of, because what you write is just how you are" (Teaching Books & Almond, 2004). “The pressing thing is the realism…..once you’ve got that solid, touchable world, you can do anything. Maybe that’s something else to do with being brought up as a Catholic: you’re taught to think about the other world, but you grow up in this one, and you realize there couldn’t be anything better. So you find the miraculous in reality” (Crown, 2010). FLANNERY O' CONNOR: “Writers of the American south must wrestle with their southerness ‘like Jacob with the angel until they extract a blessing" (Crown, 2010). |
“In all my books, the thing that has to predominate for me as the writer is the realism” (TeachingBooks & Almond, 2004). "And it seems to be that this is the transendence. Heaven is here. The more I live, the more gorgeous and wonderful the world is, but it is also terrifying and constantly endangered" (Jones, 2008). “I began to discover a way to write very plainly about very ordinary things, but somehow to expose the extraordinariness in them” (Crown, 2010). |