Behind the Frontiers of the Real : a Definition of the Fantastic / by David Roas.
2018
HM623
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Title
Behind the Frontiers of the Real : a Definition of the Fantastic / by David Roas.
Author
Roas, David.
ISBN
9783319737331
3319737333
9783319737324 (print)
3319737325
9783319737348 (print)
3319737341
9783030088460 (print)
3030088464
3319737333
9783319737324 (print)
3319737325
9783319737348 (print)
3319737341
9783030088460 (print)
3030088464
Imprint
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Pivot, 2018.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (VI, 127 pages) : online resource
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-319-73733-1 doi
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HM623
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.01
Summary
This book offers a definition of the fantastic that establishes it as a discourse in constant intertextual relation with the construct of reality. In establishing the definition of the fantastic, leading scholar David Roas selects four central concepts that allow him to chart a fairly clear map of this terrain: reality, the impossible, fear, and language. These four concepts underscore the fundamental issues and problems that articulate any theoretical reflection on the fantastic: its necessary relationship to an idea of the real, its limits, its emotional and psychological effects on the receiver and the transgression of language that is undertaken when attempting to express what is, by definition, inexpressible as it is beyond the realms of the conceivable. By examining such concepts, the book explores multiple perspectives that are clearly interrelated: from literary and comparative theory to linguistics, via philosophy, science and cyberculture.
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Print version: 9783030088460
Print version: 9783319737348
Print version: 9783030088460
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Table of Contents
1. Reality
2. The Impossible
3. Fear
4. Language
5. The Fantastic in Post-Modernity
6. Conclusions.
2. The Impossible
3. Fear
4. Language
5. The Fantastic in Post-Modernity
6. Conclusions.