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Tidskrift för Litteraturvetenskap, 2013 The Thing in You. Fear and Fascination in the Fantastic Short Story This article explores a number of short stories by three authors – the Argentinian writer Julio Cortázar, and the two Swedish writers Stig Dagerman and Karin Tidbeck – from a ...
Per Israelson
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The Macabre on the Margins: A Study of the Fantastic Terrors of the Fin de Siècle [PDF]
, 2012 It demonstrates that in spite of the dominant associations of fantastic literature with horror, terror, as the marginal and marginalized fear of the unknown, with its uncanny, sublime and suspenseful qualities, holds a definitive presence in fin de ...
Beville Maria
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Transformări ale basmului fantastic (Transformations of the Fantastic Fairy Tale) [PDF]
Incursiuni în imaginar, 2015 The premise of the work is to emphasize the aspects of the modern tales, in according with the modern way of life. Our essay is based on the research made years ago, in 1985, in the west side of the country (Banat) and the results were more than ...
Mihaela Bal
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Paris and the birth of the modern fantastic during the Nineteenth century [PDF]
, 2017 In her article "Paris and the Birth of the Modern Fantastic during the Nineteenth Century" Patricia Garcia discusses the unprecedented growth of Europe's urban centers during the nineteenth century in relation to the realist novel and takes urban and ...
García, Patricia
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Sobre los aspectos fundamentales de la estética del género fantástico y su evolución desde lo fantástico «romántico» a lo fantástico «posmoderno» [PDF]
Çédille: Revista de Estudios Franceses, 2016 In this article we will deal with the main characteristics of the aesthetics of the fantastic. First, we will look back to the origins of this literary genre.
Juan Herrero Cecilia
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Metamorphoses of the Uncanny in the Short-Story “The Landlady” by Roald Dahl
Miranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone, 2011 This study analyzes several metamorphoses of the uncanny that the short-story “The Landlady” by Roald Dahl thematizes. The Freudian notion of the uncanny is connected with the definitions of the fantastic according to Tzevtan Todorov and of the maternal ...
Jacques Sohier
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Hibridisme i autoreferència en el fantàstic d’Espiral, de Manuel Baixauli
Studia Romanica Posnaniensia, 2018 The aim of this paper is to define and to analyse the fantastic universe of short stories by Manuel Baixauli published in the volume Espiral (2010), an original and highly significant example of modern fantastic literature that has ...
Carme Gregori Soldevila
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Brumal: Revista de Investigación sobre lo Fantástico, 2019 Naomi Novik, an American writer of Lithuanian-Polish ascendency, is one of the most acclaimed voices in contemporary young-adult fantasy fiction. Her fantasies are heavily influenced by her cultural heritage, as well as by the fairy tale tradition, which
Sara González Bernárdez
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The Birth of the Category of “Fantastic” in Russian Aesthetic Thought [PDF]
Литературный фактThe article attempts to identify the time when the category “fantastic” appeared in the aesthetic thought of the Pushkin era. Common and fixed in the poetics of this time was another, close in meaning, term “chudesnoe” (“miraculous”).
Anna A. Lebedeva
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Crime and Punishment and British Gothic of Horror [PDF]
Достоевский и мировая культура: Филологический журналThe article considers Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment alongside several works of the British Gothic tradition of horror (Matthew Gregory Lewis’s The Monk, John William Polidori’s “The Vampyre”) and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, or The Modern ...
Tatyana V. Kovalevskaya
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