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Offers for the first time an English translation of Roas' landmark work Tras los límites de lo real. Una definición de lo fantástico (2011)
Examines the works of some Spanish authors born between 1960 and 1975 in order to establish the poetics of the contemporary fantastic, as well as a series of figures from global media
Provides a concept of the fantastic as an aesthetic category that allows for a definition of a multidisciplinary nature which is valid for literature and film as well as theater, comics, videogames, or any other art form that reflects on the characteristic conflict within the fantastic between the real and the impossible
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
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Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
David Roas
About the author
David Roas is Associate Professor of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature at the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain, where he directs the Grupo de Estudios sobre lo Fantástico (GEF; Research Group on the Fantastic) and Brumal. Research Journal on the Fantastic. As a leading specialist in the fantastic, he has devoted several works to the field; among the most influential are Teorías de lo fantastico (2001), Hoffmann en España. Recepción e influencias (2002), and La sombra del cuervo. Edgar Allan Poe y la literatura fantástica española del siglo XIX (2011). He also writes short stories, such as Horrores cotidianos (2007), Distorsiones (2010; winner of The Eighth Annual Setenil Award for best Spanish book of stories), and Bienvenidos a Incaland® (2014).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Behind the Frontiers of the Real
Book Subtitle: A Definition of the Fantastic
Authors: David Roas
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73733-1
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-73732-4Published: 20 March 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-73733-1Published: 15 February 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 127
Topics: Cultural Theory, Global/International Culture, Postmodern Literature, European Culture, Popular Culture