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Characteristics in Literature. Surrealism is meant to be strange and shocking. It is meant to push the envelope in a way that forces people out of their comfortable ideas, so much so that it has even been known to cause riots. While the idea of surrealism is complex, surrealist literature does have common characteristics. Surrealist literature will have contrasting images or ideas. This technique is used to help readers make new connections and expand the reader's reality, or rather the reader's idea of what reality is.
The struggle to define magical realism is evident in that, as a literary practice, it subverts definition in the same ways that it subverts other kinds of rules rules of nature, rules of science, rules of behavior. Each work is singular, so that grouping texts is necessarily difficult.amora and Faris, p. 148). Magical realism is not a realism to be transfigured by the supplement of a magical perspective, but a reality which is already in and of itself magical or fantastic. (Frederic Jameson, as quoted in Simpkins, Sources of Magic Realism.