Fantasy and Mimesis : Responses to Reality in Western Literature

ISBN-13: 9781138794450 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 232 str.

Kathryn Hume

Opis

First published in 1984, this book rejects generic definitions of fantasy, arguing that it is not a separate or even separable strain in literary practice, but rather an impulse as significant as that of mimesis.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements;  Preface;  Part I: Literature and the representation of reality: a new approach to fantasy and mimesis Introduction  1. Critical approaches to fantasy  2. Historical perspectives on fantasy and realism;  Part II: Responses to reality: how is fantasy used? Introduction  3. Literature of illusion: invitations to escape reality  4. Literature of vision: introducing new realities  5. Literature of revision: programs for improving reality  6. Literature of disillusion: making reality unknowable;  Part III: The functions of fantasy: why use fantasy? Introduction  7. Fantasy as a function of form  8. The problem of meaning and the power of fantasy;  Notes;  Index

O autorze

Hume, Kathryn