Chelmsford Public Library

The fantastic, Claire Whitehead, editor

eng

Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-299) and index

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non fiction

The fantastic

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Claire Whitehead, editor

Critical insights

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

About this volume/Claire Whitehead -- Critical contexts -- The emergence and evolution of the fantastic/David Sandner -- Tolkien and the fantasy tradition/Dimitra Fimi -- Rethinking the fantastic and related modes: new perspectives from spatial theory/Amaryll Chanady -- Never take a psychic to a "bad place": the haunted house in modern American horror fiction/Bernice M. Murphy -- Critical readings -- Women writers in the haunted house of fiction/Lucie Armitt -- E.T.A. Hoffmann and the fantastic/Birgit Roder -- Prosper Merimee's playful fantastic/Peter Cogman -- The pedagogical fantastic in Edgar Allan Poe and Vladimir Odoevsky/Slobodan Sucur -- Borges and the fantastic/Donald Shaw -- Fictional world polyphony and the image of modern consciousness in novels by Hermann Broch and Milan kundera/Tomas Kubicek -- Thomas Pynchon and the contemporary forms of the fantastic/Eugenio Bolongaro -- Calvino, the fairytale and two stories for children/Daniela de Pau -- Marie Ndiaye's uncanny realism/Daisy Connon -- Monsters of the fantastic: fusions of the mythical and the real/Joseph Andriano -- Resources -- Additional works on the fantastic