Handouts/Papers

To be announced.  The following are some first essays to consider.  These will be assigned in sequence, but you're free to read ahead if you'd like.  You may find these and more at the Resource Bank I've set up.  The essays are for your own personal information. They are all original materials and not for public distribution. Thank you.

Magical Realism: Definitions

Surrealism: Some Notes

Translating Translation

Magical Realism: Meditations and Notes

The Inherent Magical Realism of Place

Where to Find Magical Realism

You Are Not Where You Were

The Body of My Work


Student Papers

1999

Jana Carter. 
Como Agua Para Chocolate.
Erica Gregg. 
Neruda & Vallejo.
Jennifer Currin. 
Neruda's Residence on Earth.
Gina Clark. 
Vargas Llosa's The Green House.


"Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood."
--Gabriel García Márquez

"To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears."
--Octavio Paz

". . . he sang, it's six o'clock in my heart, the sea is where it belongs, life goes on. . ."
--from Autumn of the Patriarch, Gabriel García Márquez

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