Rosemary Jackson

Fantasy

The Literature of Subversion

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Produktbeschreibung

"Dr Jackson has written a wide-ranging and frequently stimulating introduction to the subject of fantasy in modern literature."--"Times Literary Supplement" This title available in eBook format. Click here for more information. Visit our eBookstore at: www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 134
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 1981
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 205mm x 128mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 262g
• ISBN-13: 9780415025621
• ISBN-10: 0415025621
• Artikelnr.: 21700317

Autorenporträt

Dr Rosemary Jackson (Author)

Inhaltsangabe

1 INTRODUCTION
Part One: Theory
2 THE FANTASTIC AS A MODE
The imagination in exile
The 'real' under scrutiny
The marvellous
mimetic and fantastic
Non-signification
Topography
themes
myths
3 PSYCHOANALYTICAL PERSPECTIVES
The uncanny
Metamorphosis and entropy
Disintegrated bodies
Part Two: Texts 4 GOTHIC TALES AND NOVELS 5 FANTASTIC REALISM 6 VICTORIAN FANTASIES 7 FROM KAFKA'S 'METAMORPHOSIS' TO PYNCHON'S 'ENTROPY' 8 AFTERWORD: THE 'UNSEEN' OF CULTURE