Fantastic Literature: A Critical ReaderBloomsbury Academic, 2004 M06 30 - 357 pages Unprecedented in range and scope, this volume serves as a record of and reference for the development of fantasy literature. Working to be inclusive, rather than exclusive, opening a dialogue wherever possible, Sandner presents the full range of debates concerning the fantastic and its relationship to the sublime, the Gothic, children's literature, romance and comedy, and the purposes of imaginative literature. Introductions to each essay, presented in full or excerpted for the most relevant commentary, situate the reader in the history of fantasy literature and the criticism it has inspired. |
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... actant for the structural " operators " of underlying semic transformations , would seem to mark a real advance toward the deanthropomorphization of the study of nar- rative . Unfortunately , the relationship between function and actant ...
... actant and of narrative diachrony which we have held to be the strategic weaknesses of Propp's model . The key to this paradoxical achievement is , I think , to be found in the social origins of the narrative material with which Lévi ...
... actant is based on a distinction between nar- rative syntax ( or " deep structure " ) and that " surface " narrative discourse in which " actors " or recognizable " characters " are visable unities : actants , which correspond to the ...
Contents
Phaedrus 388366 B C Plato | 14 |
The Fairy Way of Writing 1712 Joseph Addison 22222 | 21 |
On the Pleasure Derived from Objects of Terror 1773 | 30 |
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Folklore and the Fantastic in Nineteenth-century British Fiction Jason Marc Harris Limited preview - 2008 |