Unraveling the real : the fantastic in Spanish-American ficciones /
In literary and cinematic fictions, the fantastic blurs the lines between reality and fantasy. Lacking a consensus on definition, critics often describe the fantastic as supernatural, or similar to, but quite different from fantasy, science fiction, and magical realism. In Unraveling the Real Cynthi...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Philadelphia :
Temple University Press,
2010.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction. The fantastic as a literary genre
- Modernist short stories and the fantastic
- The fantastic as an interrogation of literary practices
- Reclaiming history: fantastic journeys in time and space
- Psychoanalytic readings of the fantastic
- The fantastic and the conventions of gothic romance
- Women writers of the fantastic
- Cinematic encounters with the fantastic
- Conclusion. Fantastic literature in Spanish America in the twenty-first century.