Fantasy
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A01=Rosemary Jackson
Animal Kingdom
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Author_Rosemary Jackson
Category=DSA
Category=DSB
Category=JBCC
Category=NH
Conventional Diabolism
cultural anxiety analysis
David Elginbrod
Demonic Pact
Dense
doctor
doubling in literature
Drawn Back
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_history
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eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
External Disorder
Fairy Tale
fantastic
Fantastic Art
Fantastic Literature
Fantastic Mode
Fantastic Narrative
Fantastic Text
fiction
gothic
Gravity's Rainbow
Gravity’s Rainbow
Great God Pan
Jolly Corner
Kafka's Metamorphosis
Kafka’s Metamorphosis
Lifted Veil
Literary Fantasies
literature
mary
mervyn
metamorphosis studies
Mr Heathcliff
peake
psychoanalytic approach to fantasy literature
psychoanalytic literary theory
Sexual Determinants
shelley
Subject's Insertion
Todorov's Book
Todorov’s Book
uncanny narratives
Victorian Fantasy
Victorian supernatural fiction
Walter De La Mare
Product details
- ISBN 9780415025621
- Weight: 280g
- Dimensions: 127 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 16 Apr 1981
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This study argues against vague interpretations of fantasy as mere escapism and seeks to define it as a distinct kind of narrative. A general theoretical section introduces recent work on fantasy, notably Tzventan Todorov's The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre (1973). Dr Jackson, however, extends Todorov's ideas to include aspects of psychoanalytical theory. Seeing fantasy as primarily an expression of unconscious drives, she stresses the importance of the writings of Freud and subsequent theorists when analysing recurrent themes, such as doubling or multiplying selves, mirror images, metamorphosis and bodily disintegration.^l Gothic fiction, classic Victorian fantasies, the 'fantastic realism' of Dickens and Dostoevsky, tales by Mary Shelley, James Hogg, E.T.A. Hoffmann, George Eliot, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, R.L. Stevenson, Franz Kafka, Mervyn Peake and Thomas Pynchon are among the texts covered. Through a reading of these frequently disquieting works, Dr Jackson moves towards a definition of fantasy expressing cultural unease. These issues are discussed in relation to a wide range of fantasies with varying images of desire and disenchantment.
