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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Duncan, Cynthia
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.