Behind the Frontiers of the Real A Definition of the Fantastic /

• Main Author: Roas, David (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Culture-Study and teaching.; Culture.; Postmodernism (Literature).; Ethnology-Europe.; Popular Culture.; Cultural Theory.; Global/International Culture.; Postmodern Literature.; European Culture.; Popular Culture .

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 t...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Reality
• 2. The Impossible
• 3. Fear
• 4. Language
• 5. The Fantastic in Post-Modernity
• 6. Conclusions.