The fantastic
By: editor, Claire Whitehead
Series: Critical insights
Publisher: Salem Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Ipswich, Mass
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9781429837354
Subjects: Fantasy literature; Fantastic, The, in literature; History and criticism
Description: Tales of magic, the supernatural, and the uncanny have been around as long as people have been telling stories. This volume presents a variety of new essays on the perennial theme. For readers who are studying it for the first time, a four essays survey the critical conversation regarding the theme, explore its cultural and historical contexts, and offer close and comparative readings of key texts in the genre. Readers seeking a deeper understanding of the theme can then move on to other essays that explore it in depth through a variety of critical approaches. --from publisher description
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: About this volume / Claire Whitehead; title: Critical contexts; title: The emergence and evolution of the fantastic / David Sandner; title: Tolkien and the fantasy tradition / Dimitra Fimi; title: Rethinking the fantastic and related modes: new perspectives from spatial theory / Amaryll Chanady; title: Never take a psychic to a "bad place": the haunted house in modern American horror fiction / Bernice M. Murphy; title: Critical readings; title: Women writers in the haunted house of fiction / Lucie Armitt; title: E.T.A. Hoffmann and the fantastic / Birgit Roder; title: Prosper Merimee's playful fantastic / Peter Cogman; title: The pedagogical fantastic in Edgar Allan Poe and Vladimir Odoevsky / Slobodan Sucur; title: Borges and the fantastic / Donald Shaw; title: Fictional world polyphony and the image of modern consciousness in novels by Hermann Broch and Milan kundera / Tomas Kubicek; title: Thomas Pynchon and the contemporary forms of the fantastic / Eugenio Bolongaro; title: Calvino, the fairytale and two stories for children / Daniela de Pau; title: Marie Ndiaye's uncanny realism / Daisy Connon; title: Monsters of the fantastic: fusions of the mythical and the real /Joseph Andriano; title: Resources; title: Additional works on the fantastic.