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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... modes of fiction is the fantastic . A mode that has been around since The Epic of Gilgamesh , which has been used for a variety of purposes ( didactic , escapist , and so on ) , and which has often been considered a relatively minor ...
... mode of narrative . What we are really dealing with here , then , is the question of narrative " legality . " Roger Caillois argues that fantasy is " a break in the acknowl- edged order , an irruption of the inadmissible within the ...
... mode : in one incar- nation a mass - produced supplier of wish fulfillment , and in another a praise- and prize - worthy means of investigating the way we use fictions to con- struct reality itself . It is Italo Calvino and Jorge Luis ...
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 |