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What exactly is the fantastic? In the twentieth-century world, our notions of what is impossible are assaulted every day. To define the nature of fantasy and the fantastic, Eric S. Rabkin considers its role in fairy tales, science fiction, detective stories, and religious allegory, as well as in traditional literature. The examples he studies range from Grimm's fairy tales to Agatha Christie, from Childhood's End to the novels of Henry James, from Voltaire to Robbe-Grillet to A Canticle for Leib

Author

Eric S. Rabkin

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published

1976

Language

EN

ISBN

9780691607443

Subjects

Fantasy, Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.43 / 5 (23 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14