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Kathryn Hume «Fantasy and Mimesis: Responses to Reality in Western Literature»


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Fantasy and Mimesis: Responses to Reality in Western Literature

авторская книга, первое издание

Язык издания: английский

London: Methuen, 1984 г.

Тираж: не указан

ISBN: 0-416-38020-4

Тип обложки: мягкая

Формат: другой

Страниц: 216

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Содержание:

  1. Kathryn Hume. Fantasy and Mimesis: Responses to Reality in Western Literature (монография)
  2. Preface
  3. Part I: Literature and the representation of reality: a new approach to fantasy and mimesis
    1. Introduction
    2. 1 Critical approaches to fantasy
      1. The disenfranchisement of fantasy
      2. Exclusive definitions
      3. Inclusive definition
      4. Assumptions about literature
    3. 2 Historical perspectives on fantasy and realism
      1. Traditional society and traditional literatures
      2. Skepticism and the growth of realism
      3. The limits of realism
      4. Beyond the void
  4. Part II: Responses to reality: how is fantasy used?
    1. Introduction
    2. 3 Literature of illusion: invitations to escape reality
      1. The pastoral: retreat from society
      2. Adventure: refuge in daydreams
      3. Indulgence in the amusing and the farcical
      4. Puzzlement and pleasing jeopardy: the reader at a stimulating disadvantage
      5. The pleasures of literary escape
    3. 4 Literature of vision: introducing new realities
      1. The creation of augmented worlds
      2. The creation of new worlds by subtraction and erasure
      3. Contrastive interpretations of reality
    4. 5 Literature of revision: programs for improving reality
      1. Moral didacticism
      2. Cosmological didacticism
    5. 6 Literature of disillusion: making reality unknowable
      1. The limits of individual perspective
      2. The inadequacies of communication
      3. Our limitations as human animals
      4. Skewed worlds
      5. Literature of unresolved contradictions
  5. Part III: The functions of fantasy: why use fantasy?
    1. Introduction
    2. 7 Fantasy as a function of form
      1. Fantasy, modes, and genres
      2. Fantasy and the parts of narrative
      3. Fantasy in lyric, drama, and beyond
      4. Degree of dislocation and techniques for introducing it
    3. 8 The problem of meaning and the power of fantasy
      1. Man as teleological animal.
      2. Latent fantasy content
      3. Patent fantastic images
      4. Synergistic interaction between images
      5. Meaning in mythological images
      6. Literature as a meaning-giving experience
  6. Notes
  7. Index

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