EAN: 9783319737324

BEHIND THE FRONTIERS OF THE REAL - DAVID ROAS G...

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.

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