Kathryn Hume «Fantasy and Mimesis: Responses to Reality in Western Literature»
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Kathryn Hume
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
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Страниц: 216
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- Kathryn Hume. Fantasy and Mimesis: Responses to Reality in Western Literature (монография)
- Preface
- Part I: Literature and the representation of reality: a new approach to fantasy and mimesis
- Introduction
- 1 Critical approaches to fantasy
- The disenfranchisement of fantasy
- Exclusive definitions
- Inclusive definition
- Assumptions about literature
- 2 Historical perspectives on fantasy and realism
- Traditional society and traditional literatures
- Skepticism and the growth of realism
- The limits of realism
- Beyond the void
- Part II: Responses to reality: how is fantasy used?
- Introduction
- 3 Literature of illusion: invitations to escape reality
- The pastoral: retreat from society
- Adventure: refuge in daydreams
- Indulgence in the amusing and the farcical
- Puzzlement and pleasing jeopardy: the reader at a stimulating disadvantage
- The pleasures of literary escape
- 4 Literature of vision: introducing new realities
- The creation of augmented worlds
- The creation of new worlds by subtraction and erasure
- Contrastive interpretations of reality
- 5 Literature of revision: programs for improving reality
- Moral didacticism
- Cosmological didacticism
- 6 Literature of disillusion: making reality unknowable
- The limits of individual perspective
- The inadequacies of communication
- Our limitations as human animals
- Skewed worlds
- Literature of unresolved contradictions
- Part III: The functions of fantasy: why use fantasy?
- Introduction
- 7 Fantasy as a function of form
- Fantasy, modes, and genres
- Fantasy and the parts of narrative
- Fantasy in lyric, drama, and beyond
- Degree of dislocation and techniques for introducing it
- 8 The problem of meaning and the power of fantasy
- Man as teleological animal.
- Latent fantasy content
- Patent fantastic images
- Synergistic interaction between images
- Meaning in mythological images
- Literature as a meaning-giving experience
- Notes
- Index
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