03066nam 22006495 450 991030000520332120250610110247.09783319737331331973733310.1007/978-3-319-73733-1(CKB)3840000000347915(MiAaPQ)EBC5301804(DE-He213)978-3-319-73733-1(Perlego)3494661(MiAaPQ)EBC29220364(EXLCZ)99384000000034791520180215d2018 u| 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierBehind the Frontiers of the Real A Definition of the Fantastic /by David Roas1st ed. 2018.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Pivot,2018.1 online resource (129 pages)9783319737324 3319737325 Includes bibliographical references and index.1. Reality -- 2. The Impossible -- 3. Fear -- 4. Language -- 5. The Fantastic in Post-Modernity -- 6. Conclusions.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 terrain: reality, the impossible, fear, and language. These four concepts underscore the fundamental issues and problems that articulate any theoretical reflection on the fantastic: 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 interrelated: from literary and comparative theory to linguistics, via philosophy, science and cyberculture.CultureStudy and teachingCultureLiterature, Modern20th centuryEthnologyEuropePopular cultureCultural TheoryGlobal and International CultureTwentieth-Century LiteratureEuropean CulturePopular CultureCultureStudy and teaching.Culture.Literature, ModernEthnologyPopular culture.Cultural Theory.Global and International Culture.Twentieth-Century Literature.European Culture.Popular Culture.809.915Roas Davidauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut988770BOOK9910300005203321Behind the Frontiers of the Real2260853UNINA