num_pages: 191
description: An examination of fantastic literature positing a new literary theory in which the stories are considered not as a genre but rather as a condition of transformational modes using a possible worlds semantics. Traill (humanities, York U.) describes the cultural conditions that provided a language to transform realism into the fantastic focusing on the work of Charles Dickens, Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, and Guy de Maupassant. The theoretical scaffolding for the analysis is based on the interaction between natural and supernatural modes, culminating in 20th century works like Kafka's Metamorphosis and Henry James's Turn of the Screw . Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
language: English
title: Possible Worlds of the Fantastic: The Rise of the Paranormal in Fiction
titlecomplete: Possible Worlds of the Fantastic: The Rise of the Paranormal in Fiction (THEORY/CULTURE)
genres: Nonfiction
ratings_count: 3
publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr