The Fantastic in Literature

by Eric S. (editor) Rabkin and Eric S. Rabkin

Book Overview

What exactly is the fantastic? In the twentieth-century world, our notions of what is impossible are assaulted every day. To define the nature of fantasy and the fantastic, Eric S. Rabkin considers its role in fairy tales, science fiction, detective stories, and religious allegory, as well as in traditional literature. The examples he studies range from Grimm's fairy tales to Agatha Christie, from Childhood's End to the novels of Henry James, from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069106301X
• ISBN13: 9780691063010
• Release Date: July 1976
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 246 Pages