TY  - BOOK
AU  -  Fanfan Chen
PY  - 2021
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - Fantasticism. Poetics of Fantastic Literature
T2  - The Imaginary and Rhetoric
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1103378
N2  - Inspired by a universal, cross-cultural vision, this book provides a comparative analysis of the rhetorical and stylistic features in fantastic literature effortlessly crossing the boundaries of cultures, languages and epochs to explore their literary manifestations of the unknown. According to the author, fantastic literature conveys a form of storytelling whose poeticization bridges the known and the unknown realms (in Gilbert Durand’s mythocritical, transcendental sense). The author’s scope ranges from ancient myths to contemporary literature and addresses developments in Chinese literature and the Greco-Roman fantastic tradition as well as English, French, German and Hispanic literatures. The encyclopaedic breadth and depth of her work responds to the long-felt need for a comparative approach to fantastic literature, bridging Eastern and Western traditions.
KW  - Literary Imaginary, Comparative Literature, Rhetoric of Fiction, Poetic, Mythopoeia, Metaphysic
LA  - English
ER  -