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Eric S. Rabkin · 2007
A comprehensive lecture course examining the fantastic in literature across fairy tales, fantasy, and science fiction, exploring how imaginative works from ancient myths to modern novels challenge our understanding of reality and human existence.
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What this book knows
Fantasy literature maps the mind's deepest structures, from fairy-tale consolation to Kafkaesque alienation, revealing what imagination demands of us.
mind-and-cognition
Freud grounded his theory of the fantastic in Hoffmann's 'The Sandman': art is motivated by trauma, arises from the unconscious, is compensatory and repetitive.
MIML-RC-013Postmodernism takes Nature—including the physical world, society, and even the self—as a phenomenological construct, an intensional act of consciousness.
MIML-RC-036self-and-identity
Kafka's parables re-present his felt life transformed through the fantastic, their psychological truths about individuality and perception emerging from subtle ambiguities.
MIML-RC-022Kafka's triple alienation mirrors the modern Kafkaesque condition: struggling vainly against indifference to find connection with person, belief, or institution.
MIML-RC-021transformation
In Hawthorne's tales, love of science fantastically twists human development; only renouncing ego and deferring to community yields happiness.
MIML-RC-045Ovid's Metamorphoses recounts tales of fantastic changes often effected by gods, while Orwell's Animal Farm uses fable to deliver biting political satire.
MIML-RC-103Illuminates
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