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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... Poetic Art itself . If impossibilities have been represented , the poet is guilty of a fault . Yet such impossibilities may still be justified , if their representation serves the purpose of the art itself - for we must remember what ...
... poet , they say , must follow Nature ; and by Nature we are to suppose can only be meant the known and experienced course of affairs in this world . Whereas the poet has a world of his own , where experience has less to do , than ...
... poets and painters , by being over studious , may have in the beginning of fevers . " The epic poet would acknowledge the charge , and even value himself upon it . He would say , " I leave to the sage dramatist the merit of being al ...
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 |