Magic realism has a long tradition in both Western and non-Western literature. Still, only in the twentieth century has it come to be considered as a discrete genre. Although the term magic realism is often associated exclusively with Latin American literature—perhaps because it was first popularized in a literary context by Cuban novelist Alejo Carpentier—it [...]

The last catch-up Literary Devotional… Romanticism was a wide-ranging intellectual and artistic movement that swept Europe and the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century.  It was a direct relation against the rationalism, precision, and restraint that had dominated Western intellectual thought during the Enlightenment period of the 1700s.  Once romanticism took [...]

This is my letter to the World That never wrote to Me— The simple News that Nature told— With tender Majesty Her Message is committed To Hands I cannot see— For love of Her—Sweet—countrymen— Judge tenderly—of Me Though she remained a virtual unknown during her lifetime, since her death, Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) has been acknowledged [...]

I’m catching up on the three literary devotionals I’ve skipped the past few weeks. Be prepared for some serious knowledge. Writers in both academia and popular culture throw around the world meta with alarming frequency.  Either standing alone or used as a prefix, it has become the intellectual word du jour and has thus entered [...]