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E-Book, Englisch, 127 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Psychology and Our Planet

Roas Behind the Frontiers of the Real

A Definition of the Fantastic
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-319-73733-1
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

A Definition of the Fantastic

E-Book, Englisch, 127 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Psychology and Our Planet

ISBN: 978-3-319-73733-1
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark



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.

David Roas is Associate Professor of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature at the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain, where he directs the Grupo de Estudios sobre lo Fantástico (GEF; Research Group on the Fantastic) and Brumal. Research Journal on the Fantastic. As a leading specialist in the fantastic, he has devoted several works to the field; among the most influential are Teorías de lo fantastico (2001), Hoffmann en España. Recepción e influencias (2002), and La sombra del cuervo. Edgar Allan Poe y la literatura fantástica española del siglo XIX (2011). He also writes short stories, such as Horrores cotidianos (2007), Distorsiones (2010; winner of The Eighth Annual Setenil Award for best Spanish book of stories), and Bienvenidos a Incaland® (2014).

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


David Roas  is Associate Professor of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature at the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain, where he directs the Grupo de Estudios sobre lo Fantástico (GEF; Research Group on the Fantastic) and Brumal. Research Journal on the Fantastic . As a leading specialist in the fantastic, he has devoted several works to the field; among the most influential are  Teorías de lo fantastico (2001), Hoffmann en España. Recepción e influencias  (2002), and  La sombra del cuervo. Edgar Allan Poe y la literatura fantástica española del siglo XIX  (2011). He also writes short stories, such as Horrores cotidianos (2007), Distorsiones (2010; winner of The Eighth Annual Setenil Award for best Spanish book of stories), and Bienvenidos a Incaland® (2014).



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