Theorising the Fantastic

by Lucie Armitt

Book Overview

This book will aim, like others in the Interrogating Texts series, to show how theory can be used to enrich the reading of texts; but it starts off with both an advantage and disadvantage. The advantage is that the literary fantastic is automatically accepted as an interesting object of study.The (potential) disadvantage is that there is little consensus on what constitutes fantasy: romantic fiction? science fiction? children's anthropomorphic books?...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0340677260
• ISBN13: 9780340677261
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.4"