Christine Brooke-Rose

A Rhetoric of the Unreal

Studies in Narrative and Structure, Especially of the Fantastic

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Produktbeschreibung

Cutting across the wide field of 'fantastic' literature, Professor Brooke-Rose examines the essential differences between several 'fantastic' narratives against the background of realistic fiction.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 639g
• ISBN-13: 9780521276566
• ISBN-10: 052127656X
• Artikelnr.: 30881837

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Part I. The Real, the Unreal and the Rhetoric: 1. The real and the unreal
2. The rhetoric
Part II. Method and Non-method in Genre Analysis: 3. Historic genres/theoretical genres: Torodov on the fantastic
4. Science fiction and realistic fiction
Part III. The Pure Fantastic: Types of Analysis: 5. The encoded reader
6. The Turn of the Screw and its critics: an essay in non-methodology
7. The Turn of the Screw
mirror structures as basic structures
8. The surface structures in The Turn of the Screw
Part IV. The Unreal as Real: the Modern Marvellous: 9. The evil ring: realism and the marvellous
10. Titan plus: the new science fiction (Vonnegut and McElroy)
Part V. The Real as Unreal: Some Modern Texts: 11. The real as unreal: Robbe-Grillet
12. Transgressions
13. Eximplosions
14. Metafiction and surfiction: a simpler formal approach
Notes
Bibliography
Index.