| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 313 pages). |
| Series |
Critical insights |
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Critical insights.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
About this volume / Claire Whitehead -- Critical contexts -- The emergence and evolution of the fantastic / David Sandner -- Tolkien and the fantasy tradition / Dimitra Fimi -- Rethinking the fantastic and related modes: new perspectives from spatial theory / Amaryll Chanady -- Never take a psychic to a "bad place": the haunted house in modern American horror fiction / Bernice M. Murphy -- Critical readings -- Women writers in the haunted house of fiction / Lucie Armitt -- E.T.A. Hoffmann and the fantastic / Birgit Roder -- Prosper Merimee's playful fantastic / Peter Cogman -- The pedagogical fantastic in Edgar Allan Poe and Vladimir Odoevsky / Slobodan Sucur -- Borges and the fantastic / Donald Shaw -- Fictional world polyphony and the image of modern consciousness in novels by Hermann Broch and Milan Kundera / Tomas Kubicek -- Thomas Pynchon and the contemporary forms of the fantastic / Eugenio Bolongaro -- Calvino, the fairytale and two stories for children / Daniela de Pau -- Marie Ndiaye's uncanny realism / Daisy Connon -- Monsters of the fantastic: fusions of the mythical and the real / Joseph Andriano -- Resources -- Additional works on the fantastic. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
Tales of magic, the supernatural, and the uncanny have been around as long as people have been telling stories. This volume presents a variety of new essays on the perennial theme. |
| Subject |
Fantasy literature -- History and criticism.
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Fantastic, The, in literature.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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Fantastic, The, in literature. (OCoLC)fst00920686
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Fantasy literature. (OCoLC)fst00920853
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Added Author |
Whitehead, Claire.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Fantastic. Ipswich, Mass. : Salem Press, ©2013 9781429837354 (DLC) 2012014118 (OCoLC)777601624 |
| ISBN |
9781429837835 (electronic bk.) |
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1429837837 (electronic bk.) |
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