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Tag: Magical Realism

Mass Media Critical Analysis: Family Guy

Posted on June 5, 2016 by admin

The animated sitcom series Family Guy, which began broadcasting on American television channels in 1999, has always courted controversy.  The perceived crude humor and lack of inhibitions in the characters of the show have offended the conservative sections of American society.  At times unfavorably compared to The Simpsons, an animated family comedy which preceded it,…

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Theories in Mythology: Elements of Magic Realism

Posted on April 21, 2012April 21, 2012 by JL Admin

Gaster writes that “the mythological story presupposes activity on a level somewhat different from that of the actual and empirical. Its [. . .] characters can violate the normal laws of nature; they can change shape and sex, or traverse prodigious distances at a bound” (Sacred Narrative 129).  A suitable analogy to the genre of…

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