Theorising the fantastic
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Theorising the fantastic
（Interrogating texts）
Arnold, 1996
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-199) and index
内容説明・目次
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: pbk ISBN 9780340605875
内容説明
This text seeks to show how theory can be used to enrich the reading of texts; but it starts off with both and advantage and a disadvantage. The advantage is that the literary fantastic is automatically accepted as an interesting object of study. The (potential) disadvantage is that there is little consensus on what constitutes fantasy: romantic fiction?; science fiction?; children's anthromorphic books?; gothic horror?. This study demonstrates the sterility of that approach and focuses instead on the role of the fantastic as "an uncertain and ambiguous problematizing of the accepted conventions of normal reality". With that understanding, it becomes possible not only to look at work in the fantasy genre (however defined) but also at the use of fantasy as a "narrative strategy" in otherwise "straight fiction". Texts such as Lewis Carroll's "Alice" works and Doris Lessing's "Briefing for a Descent into Hell" and Iain Banks' "The Bridge" are discussed.
目次
- Situating fantasy and the fantastic
- textual play and its spatial dimensions
- alien territory and border crossings. Part one Reading theory - structuralism, genre and (the) beyond
- fantasy, phantasy and the realm of the uncanny
- re-theorizing the body, re-thinking its spaces. Part two Reading texts - drifting in and out of the unconscious: Lessing's "Briefing" and Banks' "The Bridge"
- the body in the house of the closeted text: Stevenson's "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" and Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper"
- changing the narrative subject: Carroll's "Alices" and Carter's "The Passion of New Eve". Afterword - but what of Utopia?.
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: hardbound ISBN 9780340677261
内容説明
This text seeks to show how theory can be used to enrich the reading of texts; but it starts off with both and advantage and a disadvantage. The advantage is that the literary fantastic is automatically accepted as an interesting object of study. The (potential) disadvantage is that there is little consensus on what constitutes fantasy: romantic fiction?; science fiction?; children's anthromorphic books?; gothic horror?. This study demonstrates the sterility of that approach and focuses instead on the role of the fantastic as "an uncertain and ambiguous problematizing of the accepted conventions of normal reality". With that understanding, it becomes possible not only to look at work in the fantasy genre (however defined) but also at the use of fantasy as a "narrative strategy" in otherwise "straight fiction". Texts such as Lewis Carroll's "Alice" works and Doris Lessing's "Briefing for a Descent into Hell" and Iain Banks' "The Bridge" are discussed.
目次
- Situating fantasy and the fantastic
- textual play and its spatial dimensions
- alien territory and border crossings. Part one Reading theory - structuralism, genre and (the) beyond
- fantasy, phantasy and the realm of the uncanny
- re-theorizing the body, re-thinking its spaces. Part two Reading texts - drifting in and out of the unconscious: Lessing's "Briefing" and Banks' "The Bridge"
- the body in the house of the closeted text: Stevenson's "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" and Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper"
- changing the narrative subject: Carroll's "Alices" and Carter's "The Passion of New Eve". Afterword - but what of Utopia?.
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