2011
First Published
4.12
Average Rating
142
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This book offers a definition of the fantastic that establishes it as a discourse in constant intertextual relation with the construct of reality. In establishing the definition of the fantastic, leading scholar David Roas selects four central concepts that allow him to chart a fairly clear map of this reality, the impossible, fear, and language. These four concepts underscore the fundamental issues and problems that articulate any theoretical reflection on the its necessary relationship to an idea of the real, its limits, its emotional and psychological effects on the receiver and the transgression of language that is undertaken when attempting to express what is, by definition, inexpressible as it is beyond the realms of the conceivable. By examining such concepts, the book explores multiple perspectives that are clearly from literary and comparative theory to linguistics, via philosophy, science and cyberculture.
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Author
David Roas
Author · 2 books
Escritor y crítico literario español, especializado en literatura fantástica. Es profesor de Teoría de la Literatura y Literatura Comparada en la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, donde dirige el Grupo de Estudios sobre lo Fantástico (GEF). En la Historia natural de los cuentos de miedo se menciona en distintas ocasiones a este autor, como crítico y narrador destacado del género fantástico en España. Según el periodista y escritor Rubén Sánchez Trigos, Roas es «probablemente el mayor especialista en literatura fantástica» de España.
