Ellipse of uncertainty : an introduction to postmodern fantasy
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Ellipse of uncertainty : an introduction to postmodern fantasy
（Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy, no. 26）
Greenwood Press, 1987
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Bibliography: p. [119]-125
Includes index
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Description
This fascinating study of literary theory is the first work of its kind to examine the intersection of fantasy and postmodernism, and to analyze contemporary fantasy writers comparatively. After carefully developing working definitions of postmodernism and fantasy, the author goes on to analyze works by various postmodernist fantasy writers. Olsen's approach is eclectic, bringing to each text or textual complex those forces he feels most interestingly stir up its sediment--be they biographical, structural, psychoanalytic, philosophical, reader-response, or otherwise. Finally he argues that postmodern fantasy is the literary equivalent of deconstructionism, for it interrogates all we take for granted about language and experience, giving these no more than shifting and provisional status. It may be seen as a mode of radical skepticism that believes only in the possiblilty of total intelligibility.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Prelude: Nameless Things and Thingless Names
Diagnosing Fantastic Autism: Kafka, Borges, and Robbe-Grillet
I Stink, Therefore I (S)am: Functions, Fantasy, Beckett
Metamorphosis in Fuentes' Aura
Pynchon's New Nature: Indeterminacy and The Crying of Lot 49
Misfires in Eden: Garcia Marquez and Narrative Frustration
The Presence of Absence: Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians
Postlude
Bibliography
Index
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