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“Eisenheim the Illusionist”

As I was reading “Eisenheim the Illusionist,” I started thinking about “In the Reign of Harad IV” and how, in both stories, nothing was ever enough. They are both always striving to do more and better work than what they had already achieved to the point that it becomes unrealistic and fantastic. They both are […]

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How many years does it take for something to finally be viewed as fantastic? Five? Twenty? One hundred? I found myself pondering this as I read One Hundred Years of Solitude. As the years go by, we see bits and pieces of the modern world beginning to make their way into the isolated Macondo—the railroad, […]

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Throughout this course we have explored the realm of fantastic in fiction and the amount of varieties within the category. If we were to have read a story about a pandemic that caused mass hysteria and isolation just a couple months ago, before the pandemic became a force to be reckoned with, we would have […]

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Upon reading many of the blog posts this week relating to COVID-19, I noticed a lot of us talked about the dystopian genre or various works of literature we were reminded of. In the class Deviant Forms and Bodies with Professor Nevison, we’ve talked a lot about how different monsters reflect different cultural and societal […]

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