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Debate on the merits of fantastic literature

Literatura i Kultura Popularna, 2020
The possible “value” of “fantastic” or non-mimetic literature has been the subject of an on-going debate. There is, obviously, the dispute between these critics (and academics) who regard non-mimetic literature to be inferior to truly “literary” mainstream fiction and deprived of “literary merit” and those who defend it. Additionally, within the proper
Trębicki, Grzegorz
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Space as the ‘Limit’ of the Fantastic in Literature: the Impossibility of Overcoming the Possible [PDF]

Литература двух Америк
The article examines the theoretical problem, the “limit” of the fantastic in literature using the example of the works of American writers Ray Cummings, Miles J. Breuer, A.J. Deutsch, Martin Gardner, Robert Heinlein. The writer cannot create in the text
Dmitry D. Nikolaev
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DISCOURSIVE CONSTRAINTS OF TRANSLATING FANTASTIC LITERATURE

Journal of History School, 2020
In Translation Studies, discourse has generally been discussed as a part of the binary opposition of “form versus content” or “structure versus meaning” and at the end of this discussion, challenging discourse elements of some genres (especially poetic discourse) have been often considered untranslatable.
Yılmaz Kutlay, Sevcan
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The Macabre on the Margins: A Study of the Fantastic Terrors of the Fin de Siècle [PDF]

Text Matters, 2012
With a view to discussing an important three-faceted example of marginality in literature whereby terror, the literary Fantastic and the fin de siècle period are understood as interconnected marginalia, this paper examines works such as Guy de Maupassant’
Maria Beville
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Religious Literature, The realistic, and the Fantastic: [PDF]

Estudos de Religião, 2019
The current study discusses several ancient Jewish traditions that speak of mythological-fantastic creatures in Noah's ark. The biblical text does not list the types of organisms that entered the ark, rather makes do with noting the groups of animals in general.
Ofir Shemesh, Abraham
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Magic Realism and Fantastic in Contemporary Literature

International Journal of Middle Eastern Research
Magical Realism and Fantastic are two widely used concepts in contemporary literature. Fantastic is such fiction that blends the realities of our physical world with the supernatural in an indistinguishable manner, with the aim of leading minds of varying abilities on different trails. Both are used in combination to complete the novel.
Gulrahman Rahmani, Sayed Mojtaba Nayel
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Le Fantastique malentendu suivi de Histoire de l’abribus hanté [PDF]

Çédille: Revista de Estudios Franceses, 2016
Reflexions sur le récit ...
Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud
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Preliminary notations concerning the relation ship between fantastic literature and context

Pensamiento Palabra y Obra, 2014
Fantastic literature is commonly understood as the transgression of an established order and, in its turn, it is also one of the literary genres that better underline social and cultural backgrounds.
Nadia Juliana Bazán
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Néstor Robles' fantastic Northerner

Catedral Tomada: Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, 2019
In 2017, appears the book of fantastic stories Réquiem por Tijuana, by Mexican Néstor Robles. We propose that in Robles’ fantastic plots, set in Tijuana, the idea of community is criticized and, on the contrary, the fragility of human bonds is ...
Alejandro Arteaga Martínez
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”En människa är det”: Flickskap i Jessica Schiefauers Pojkarna

Barnboken: Tidskrift för Barnlitteraturforskning, 2015
This article analyses Jessica Schiefauer’s prize-winning young adult novel Pojkarna (The Boys), where a magical metamorphosis from girl to boy takes place.
Rebecka Fokin
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