A Comparative Study of Magic Realism in Works of Neil Gaiman and Angela Carter
Article Sidebar
Main Article Content
Abstract
Since the release of Gabriel Garciá Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, Magical Realism has been in favour as a narrative style or genre in adult fiction. The representation of the genre in children’s and juvenile literature, on the other hand, is a recent trend; the components of the genre have been tracked and proven to be genuinely important in the interpretation of current children’s fiction, such as David Almond’s Skelling (1998). The aim of this paper is to look at the elements of magical realism in Neil Gaiman’s Coraline and Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus works in this respect.
Downloads
Metrics
Article Details
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
References
Bealer, Tracy L and Rachel Luria. “Traveling with the Gods.” Neil Gaiman and Philosophy: Gods Gone Wild!, edited by Tracy L. Bealer et al., Open Court, 2012.
Carter Angela. Nights at the Circus. Vintage. Random House, 1994.
Gaiman, Neil. Coraline. Bloomsbury, 2013.
Green, Melody. “Ravens, Librarians and Beautiful Ladies: Bhaktinian Dialogism in the Gothic Mythology of Neil Gaiman and George McDonald.” The Mythological Dimensions of Neil Gaiman, edited by Anthony S. Burdge et al., Kitsen Books, 2013.
Hsia, Chen-I. Deconstructing Binary Opposition in Angela Carter’s “Nights at the Circus.” Taiwan: National Chengchi University, 2005.
Porter, Lynnette. “Magic and Dreams and Good Madness”. Preface. The Mythological Dimensions of Neil Gaiman, edited by Anthony S. Burdge et al., Kitsen Books, 2013
Stoddart, Helen. Angela Carter’s “Nights at the Circus”. Routledge, 2007. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203312070