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Behind the Frontiers of the Real
A Definition of the Fantastic|
53,49 € |
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| Verlag: | Palgrave Pivot |
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| Veröffentl.: | 15.02.2018 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9783319737331 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
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Beschreibungen
<p>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.</p>
<div>1. Reality<br/></div><div>2. The Impossible</div><div>3. Fear</div><div>4. Language</div><div>5. The Fantastic in Post-Modernity</div><div>6. Conclusions</div>
<p><b>David Roas</b> is Associate Professor of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature at the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain, where he directs the<i> Grupo de Estudios sobre lo Fantástico </i>(GEF; Research Group on the Fantastic) and <i>Brumal. Research Journal on the Fantastic</i>. As a leading specialist in the fantastic, he has devoted several works to the field; among the most influential are <i>Teorías de lo fantastico </i>(2001), <i>Hoffmann en España. </i><i>Recepción e influencias</i> (2002), and <i>La sombra del cuervo. Edgar Allan Poe y la literatura fantástica española del siglo XIX</i> (2011). He also writes short stories, such as <i>Horrores cotidianos</i> (2007), <i>Distorsiones</i> (2010; winner of The Eighth Annual Setenil Award for best Spanish book of stories), and <i>Bienvenidos a Incaland®</i> (2014).</p>
<p>Offers for the first time an English translation of Roas' landmark work Tras los límites de lo real. Una definición de lo fantástico (2011)</p><p>Examines the works of some Spanish authors born between 1960 and 1975 in order to establish the poetics of the contemporary fantastic, as well as a series of figures from global media</p><p>Provides a concept of the fantastic as an aesthetic category that allows for a definition of a multidisciplinary nature which is valid for literature and film as well as theater, comics, videogames, or any other art form that reflects on the characteristic conflict within the fantastic between the real and the impossible</p>
<div><p>Offers for the first time an English translation of Roas' landmark work <i>Tras los límites de lo real. Una definición de lo fantástico</i> (2011)</p><p>Examines the works of some Spanish authors born between 1960 and 1975 in order to establish the poetics of the contemporary fantastic, as well as a series of figures from global media</p><p>Provides a concept of the fantastic as an aesthetic category that allows for a definition of a multidisciplinary nature which is valid for literature and film as well as theater, comics, videogames, or any other art form that reflects on the characteristic conflict within the fantastic between the real and the impossible</p></div>
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