A Rhetoric of the Unreal: Studies in Narrative and Structure, Especially of the Fantastic

by Christine Brooke-Rose

This 1981 book is a study of wide range of fiction, from short stories to tales of horror, from fairy-tales and romances to science fiction, to which the rather loose term 'fantastic' has been applied. Cutting across this wide field, Professor Brooke-Rose examines in a clear and precise way the essential differences between these types of narrative against the background of realistic fiction. In doing so, she employs many of the methods of modern...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052127656X
• ISBN13: 9780521276566
• Release Date: August 1983
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"