tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3437202921488580689.post3955197926251674534..comments2023-06-08T07:19:28.723-04:00Comments on At the End of the World: 21st Century Folktaleskuwisdeluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08406722256631106517noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3437202921488580689.post-13854901893539447102015-11-02T22:28:17.334-05:002015-11-02T22:28:17.334-05:00Me again (left a comment on the original MR post)....Me again (left a comment on the original MR post). I concur with everything you said, and in fact, underneath my definition of MR in my notes, I wrote: "As a culture, we don't believe in God, and it shows." It shows in our everyday speech, in the inherent assumption of a secular, rational world. Of course, there are exceptions, but even a majority of professed "believers" do not speak of God the way they speak of a cousin or the President, i.e. as someone who actually exists. I may have to retract what I said in my other comment about MR being moral/religious, because what I was trying to get at is more like what you've described here. Magical realism is basically the manifestation of a worldview minus Western metaphysical assumptions; the antithesis of Rationalism. <br /><br />One of my favorite resources and books is Ames and Hall's "Anticipating China" (I highly recommend it). It discusses the philosophical divergence between Western and Eastern thought, devoting a good amount of space to deconstructing the former. It describes myth as an attempt to impose order on chaos, and supplied the ground from which grew descendent traditions including poetry, history, and philosophy. Here is an excerpt (I keep it on my shelf of writing resources): <br /><br />"According to the received interpretation of Greek thought, the purpose of the intellect is seen to be that of giving accounts. These may be the sort of accounts that appeal to the <i>logos</i> of <i>physis</i>, the meaning of natural phenomena, or they may be the <i>historical</i> accountings associated with the realm of human action and public events. Behind both of these accounts lie those of the <i>philomythoi</i> who tell of the origins of order from chaos, and those of the tragic, epic, and lyric poets who implicate these cosmogonic accounts into their creations as means of bringing order into human thought, action, and passion. Each of these types of accounting - <i>mythos, logos, historia</i> - privilege the notion of permanence, structure, stability, and law over that of process and change."Tinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3437202921488580689.post-87566229870838523832014-06-13T01:19:19.201-04:002014-06-13T01:19:19.201-04:00So I'm wondering, what then of someone who bel...So I'm wondering, what then of someone who believe in ghosts and spirits, and they happen to write a regular slice of life? I so often find myself in that situation, while I don't believe in ghosts per say, I definitely wouldn't exactly rule it out either.JustSarahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05911766394335306918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3437202921488580689.post-32590977753737041472013-07-24T06:34:28.383-04:002013-07-24T06:34:28.383-04:00The magical merges with one's comprehending of...The magical merges with one's comprehending of truth, where the dissimilarities between the two genres disintegrate. It appears to me that one's beginning and comprehending of "reality".<br /><br />Regards,<br /><a href="http://www.waytoarticles.com/" rel="nofollow">Content Writing Services</a>Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08408283091374012476noreply@blogger.com