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Fantastic, The, in literature. --- Fantasy fiction --- English fiction --- Fantastic fiction --- Heroic fantasy (Fiction) --- Fantasy literature --- Fiction --- Fantastic, The (Aesthetics), in literature --- History and criticism.
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Even though the fantastic (in its most inclusive definition) has been a part of our culture for as long as it exists, it has not been a prominent feature of European academic interest. With its inherent transgressive moment the fantastic allows for an ideal space of the cultural negotiation of political, social and physical boundaries, which should place it at the center of popular cultural research, not as is the case, at its periphery. But the commencing boom of fantastic themes in contemporary media production has facilitated a paradigmatic change in research, prompting a wide interest in the fantastic in all its forms, from fantasy to horror, from fairy tale to science fiction. This volume addresses this growing interest by reviewing the status of research on the fantastic in Europe so far and by providing a necessary outlook for the future. In the essays current trends, such as the liminality debate, as well as established discourses, as for example on genre theory, are brought together to show interested researchers a network of interdisciplinary (from literary, media and social studies) approaches towards the fantastic.
Fantastic, The, in literature. --- Fantasy fiction -- History and criticism. --- Literature and society -- Europe. --- Science fiction -- History and criticism. --- Fantastic, The, in literature --- Literature and society --- Fantasy fiction --- Science fiction --- Languages & Literatures --- Literature - General --- History and criticism --- History and criticism. --- Fantastic, The (Aesthetics), in literature --- Fantasy. --- Science Fiction.
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What exactly is the fantastic? In the twentieth-century world, our notions of what is impossible are assaulted every day. To define the nature of fantasy and the fantastic, Eric S. Rabkin considers its role in fairy tales, science fiction, detective stories, and religious allegory, as well as in traditional literature. The examples he studies range from Grimm's fairy tales to Agatha Christie, from Childhood's End to the novels of Henry James, from Voltaire to Robbe-Grillet to A Canticle for Leiboivitz. By analyzing different works of literature, the author shows that the fantastic depends on a reversal of the ground rules of a narrative world. This reversal signals most commonly a psychological escape, often from boredom, to an unknown world secretly yearned for, whose order, although reversed, bears a precise relation to reality.Originally published in 1976.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Littérature fantastique --- Fantastic, The, in literature. --- Fantastic, The (Aesthetics), in literature --- Fantastic, The, in literature --- -Fantastic literature --- 82-312.9 --- Fantasy literature --- 82-312.9 Fantastische literatuur --- Fantastische literatuur --- History and criticism --- History and criticism. --- Comparative literature --- Thematology --- Littérature fantastique --- Histoire et critique --- Literary criticism --- General. --- Fantasy literature - History and criticism
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Outil de travail inestimable et souvent mal employé, la psychanalyse, dans le domaine littéraire, après avoir frayé tant de nouvelles voies, a encore à trouver la sienne. D'abord psychobiographie, à l'origine freudienne, lecture symptomale tâchant à remonter du texte à l'auteur ; puis mythographie, archétypale et jungienne ; plus récemment, psychocritique, avec Mauron, poursuivant l'étude structurale et, en grande partie, autonome, des œuvres, — dans quelle direction pousser l'analyse ? Pour ma part, j'ai essayé de tenir compte de l'objection, réitérée à son encontre, qu'elle est trop souvent critique du signifié psychique et non du signifiant littéraire. Cette littérarité du signe, toutefois, n'est nullement inscrite dans un espace neutre ; d'emblée, son symbolisme est tout entier engagé dans un « destin de pulsion » : celle d'écrire. La « place de la madeleine » me paraît ce lieu privilégié, chez Proust, où se narre la naissance de l'écriture, son émergence dans les divers ordres du désir où elle s'étale et s'étale, en son originaire et féroce naïveté. Écoute du fantasme ouvrant le texte, dépistage de ses réseaux, de ses détours, de ses spirales, l'approche est ici clinique : mais clinique de la « névrose d'écriture », non des « complexes » de l'écrivain. Constituée ainsi en véritable logique du fantasme, dans laquelle elle est elle-même, d'ailleurs, prise et comprise, la critique psychanalytique, portant sur le fondement pulsionnel du texte, fonctionnerait, en sa limite idéale, comme poétique de l'inconscient.
Psychoanalysis and literature --- Fantasy in literature. --- Proust, Marcel, --- fantasme --- littérature --- critique littéraire --- psychanalyse --- Fantastic, The, in literature --- Psychanalyse et littérature --- Fantastique dans la littérature --- Fantasy in literature --- Proust (marcel), 1871-1922 --- Critique et interpretation
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Fiction --- Thematology --- Science fiction --- Fantastic, The, in literature. --- Realism in literature. --- Reality in literature. --- Neorealism (Literature) --- Magic realism (Literature) --- Mimesis in literature --- Fantastic, The (Aesthetics), in literature --- Science --- Science stories --- Future, The, in literature --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- Authorship.
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Au-delà d’un imaginaire légendaire connu et d’une tradition gothique qui, de Melmoth à Dracula, a durablement marqué le fantastique européen, la littérature irlandaise contemporaine a inventé de nouvelles formes d’expression de l’inquiétude et du spectral. Qu’il s’agisse des résurgences d’une histoire longtemps occultée ou d’une appréhension subtile des seuils du réel, les écrivains irlandais du XXe siècle ont cartographié des territoires de l’étrange toujours troublants, quelquefois drôles, souvent implacables. De Elisabeth Bowen à Eavan Boland, de Beckett à Banville en passant par William Trevor, John McGahern ou Ciaran Carson, ils ont su donner corps à l’effroi lucide d’une culture où poétique et politique se sont toujours mêlés.
Fantastic, The, in literature. --- Supernatural in literature. --- English literature --- Fantastique dans la littérature --- Surnaturel dans la littérature --- Littérature anglaise --- History and criticism. --- Irish authors --- Histoire et critique --- Auteurs irlandais --- Fantastique dans la littérature --- Surnaturel dans la littérature --- Littérature anglaise --- Literature (General) --- littérature fantastique --- littérature de langue anglaise --- XXème siècle --- étrangeté --- histoire
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Le fantastique, l’a-t-on assez dit, serait de tout temps affaire de spéculation inventive et d’imagination luxuriante, de visions horrifiantes d’une improbable surnature et de figurations fuligineuses d’un intime irreprésentable, seules à même de générer un sentiment d’envoûtement mêlé d’effroi. C’est ce présupposé en forme de poncif critique que la présente étude voudrait, sinon remettre en cause, tout au moins interroger et pondérer par une poétique dite « lettrale » passant le champ concerné au(x) spectre(s) de la lettre. Car, contrairement à ce que tendent à laisser penser des kyrielles d’adaptation cinématographiques (dont certaines au demeurant admirables), les récits fondateurs du genre (Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, Dracula) sont d’abord et surtout - et ce n’est pas un hasard - d’imposants dispositifs textuels laissant proliférer la lettre et l’écrit dans tous ses états, fût-ce à la faveur d’épiphanies délétères, voire mortifères. En définitive, ce n’est rien de moins qu’une certaine performativité de la lettre fantastique que l’on s’attachera à mettre en lumière, à partir d’un corpus protéiforme (confrontant des époques, des aires linguistiques et des degrés de notoriété très variés) et à travers certains motifs clés : la pseudo-traduction à visée mystificatrice ; les variantes du livre maudit et du manuscrit trouvé ; l’écriture fictive de soi qui vient buter et s’oblitérer sur un impossible je meurs, terme ultime de la lettre (qui) tue.
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This iconoclastic book challenges and changes accepted opinions about the Gothic novel, and will introduce the British and American Reader to works hitherto unknown to them, but rivals in quality to the works of writers like Radcliffe, Lewis and Stoker.
Fantasy fiction --- Gothic fiction (Literary genre) --- Literature and history --- Littérature fantastique --- Roman gothique --- Littérature et histoire --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique. --- France --- History --- Literature and the revolution --- Littérature et révolution. --- Fantastic, The, in literature --- Gothic fiction --- History in literature. --- Fantastic, The (Aesthetics), in literature --- History and criticism. --- History in literature --- Gothic revival (Literature) --- Literary movements --- Revival movements (Art) --- Romanticism
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A través de los catorce capítulos que componen este libro se realiza un recorrido por lo fantástico español desde los primeros años del modernismo hasta el presente, y a través de sus diversas manifestaciones ficcionales: narrativa, teatro, cine, televisión y cómic, mostrando, además, las interrelaciones y mutuas influencias entre ellas, y trazando así las líneas que definen la historia y evolución de lo fantástico en la cultura española contemporánea.
Fantasy literature, Spanish --- Spanish literature --- Fantastic, The. --- Fantastic, The, in literature. --- Fantasy fiction --- Literatura fantástica española --- Literatura española --- El fantástico. --- El fantástico en literatura. --- Fantasía de ficción --- Fantastic, The (Aesthetics), in literature --- Fantastic, The (Aesthetics) --- Aesthetics --- Fantastic literature, Spanish --- Spanish fantasy literature --- History and criticism. --- Historia y crítica.
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Working Juju examines how fantastical and unreal modes are deployed in portrayals of the Caribbean in popular and literary culture as well as in the visual arts. The Caribbean has historically been constructed as a region mantled by the fantastic. Andrea Shaw Nevins analyzes such imaginings of the Caribbean and interrogates the freighting of Caribbean-infused spaces with characteristics that register as fantastical. These fantastical traits may be described as magical, supernatural, uncanny, paranormal, mystical, and speculative. The book asks throughout, What are the discursive threads that run through texts featuring the Caribbean fantastic? In Working Juju, Nevins teases out the multilayered and often obscured connections among texts such as the Pirates of the Caribbean film series, planter and historian Edward Long's History of Jamaica, and Grenadian sci-fi writer Tobias Buckell's Xenowealth series set in the future Caribbean. Fantastical representations of the region generally occupy one of two spaces. In the first, the Caribbean fantastic facilitates an imagining of the colonial experience and its aftermath as one in which the region and its representatives exercise agency and in which the humanity of the region's inhabitants is asserted. Alternately, the fantastic is sometimes situated as a signifier of the irrational and uncivilized. The thread that unites portrayals of the fantastic Caribbean in the latter kind of works is that they tend to locate Caribbean belief systems as powerful, even at times inadvertently in contradiction to the text's ideological posture. Nevins shows how the singular "Caribbean" identity that emerges in these text is at odds with the complex historical narratives of actual Caribbean countries and colonies.
Literature and history --- Literature and society --- Religion and literature --- Magic in literature. --- Fantastic, The, in art. --- Fantastic, The, in literature. --- Caribbean literature (English) --- Fantastic, The (Aesthetics), in literature --- Literature --- Literature and religion --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- History and literature --- History and poetry --- Poetry and history --- History --- History. --- History and criticism. --- Moral and religious aspects --- Social aspects --- Caribbean Area --- Caribbean Free Trade Association countries --- Caribbean Region --- Caribbean Sea Region --- West Indies Region --- Intellectual life. --- Social life and customs. --- Civilization.
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