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This study argues against vague interpretations of fantasy as mere escapism and seeks to define it as a distinct kind of narrative A general theoretical section introduces recent work on fantasy notably Tzventan Todorovs The Fantastic A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre 1973 Dr Jackson however extends Todorovs ideas to include aspects of psychoanalytical theory Seeing fantasy as primarily an expression of unconscious drives she stresses the importance of the writings of Freud and subsequent theorists when analysing recurrent themes such as doubling or multiplying selves mirror images metamorphosis and bodily disintegrationl Gothic fiction classic Victorian fantasies the fantastic realism of Dickens and Dostoevsky tales by Mary Shelley James Hogg ETA Hoffmann George Eliot Henry James Joseph Conrad RL Stevenson Franz Kafka Mervyn Peake and Thomas Pynchon are among the texts covered Through a reading of thse frequently disquieting works Dr Jackson moves towards a definition of fantasy expressing cultural unease These issues are discussed in relation to a wide range of fantasies with varying images of desire and disenchantment
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Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2014In Poe and the Subversion of American Literature Robert T Tally Jr argues that Edgar Allan Poe is best understood not merely as a talented artist or canny magazinist but primarily as a practical joker who employs satire and fantasy to poke fun at an emergent nationalist discourse circulating in the United States Poes satirical and fantastic mode on display even in his apparently serious short stories and literary criticism undermines the earnest attempts to establish a distinctively national literature in the nineteenth century In retrospect Poes work also subtly subverts the tenets of an institutionalized American Studies in the twentieth century Tally interprets Poes life and works in light of his own social milieu and in relation to the disciplinary field of American literary studies finding Poe to be neither the poète maudit of popular mythology nor the representative American writer revealed by recent scholarship Rather Poe is an untimely figure whose work ultimately makes a mockery of those who would seek to contain it Drawing upon Gilles Deleuzes distinction between nomad thought and state philosophy Tally argues that Poes varied literary and critical writings represent an alternative to American literature Through his satirical critique of US national culture and his otherworldly projection of a postnational space of the imagination Poe establishes a subterranean nomadic and altogether worldly literary practice
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