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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... romance , tragedy , and irony or satire that he claims underlie all narrative . Frye's approach vitally draws on , among other things , James Frazer's work collecting myths and Carl Jung's work on psychological archetypes , both of ...
... romance will turn up again , as hungry as ever , looking for new hopes and desires to feed on . The perenni- ally child - like quality of romance is marked by its extraordinarily persistent nostalgia , its search for some kind of ...
... romance turns on a presupposition - the ethical axis of good and evil - which needs to be historically problematized ... romance , as has been suggested , is the fullest account of this genre as a mode . Romance is for Frye a wish ...
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 |