Title A rhetoric of the unreal : studies in narrative and structure, especially of the fantastic / Christine Brooke-Rose

Edition First edition Published Cambridge [Eng.] ; New York : Cambrige University Press, 1981

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Description vii, 446 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm Contents Machine derived contents note: Acknowledgements; Part I. The Real, the Unreal and the Rhetoric: 1. The real and the unreal; 2. The rhetoric; Part II. Method and Non-method in Genre Analysis: 3. Historic genres/theoretical genres: Torodov on the fantastic; 4. Science fiction and realistic fiction; Part III. The Pure Fantastic: Types of Analysis: 5. The encoded reader; 6. The Turn of the Screw and its critics: an essay in non-methodology; 7. The Turn of the Screw; mirror structures as basic structures; 8. The surface structures in The Turn of the Screw; Part IV. The Unreal as Real: the Modern Marvellous: 9. The evil ring: realism and the marvellous; 10. Titan plus: the new science fiction (Vonnegut and McElroy); Part V. The Real as Unreal: Some Modern Texts: 11. The real as unreal: Robbe-Grillet; 12. Transgressions; 13. Eximplosions; 14. Metafiction and surfiction: a simpler formal approach; Notes; Bibliography; Index Analysis Fiction in European languages 1860-1980 Fantasy Notes Includes index Bibliography Bibliography: pages 417-431 Subject Criticism. Fantasy fiction -- History and criticism. Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism. LC no. 80041720 ISBN 0521225612

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