Table of Contents

1 INTRODUCTION, Part One: Theory, 2 THE FANTASTIC AS A MODE, The imagination in exile, The ‘real’ under scrutiny, The marvellous, mimetic and fantastic, Non-signification, Topography, themes, myths, 3 PSYCHOANALYTICAL PERSPECTIVES, The uncanny, Metamorphosis and entropy, Disintegrated bodies, Part Two: Texts 4 GOTHIC TALES AND NOVELS 5 FANTASTIC REALISM 6 VICTORIAN FANTASIES 7 FROM KAFKA’S ‘METAMORPHOSIS’ TO PYNCHON’S ‘ENTROPY’ 8 AFTERWORD: THE ‘UNSEEN’ OF CULTURE

About the Author

Dr Rosemary Jackson (Author)

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`Dr Jackson has written a wide-ranging and frequently stimulating introduction to the subject of 'fantasy in modern literature.' - Times Literary Supplement