num_pages: 250
description: "rejects generic definitions of fantasy, arguing that it is not a separate or even separable strain in literary practice, but rather an impulse as significant as that of mimesis…ranges form the Icelandic sagas to science fiction, from Malory to pulp romance, from the Odyssey to the nouveau roman..."
language: English
title: Fantasy and Mimesis: Responses to Reality in Western Literature
titlecomplete: Fantasy and Mimesis: Responses to Reality in Western Literature
genres: 20th Century, Literary Criticism, Theory, Academic, American, Reference, Fantasy
ratings_count: 55
publisher: Routledge