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Reading the Fantastic Imagination: The Avatars of a Literary Genre


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The purpose of Reading the Fantastic Imagination: The Avatars of a Literary Genre is the observation of the very hybridity of the fantastic genre, as a typical postmodern form. The volume continues an older project of the editor and a large number of the contributors, that of investigating the current status of several popular genres, from historical fiction to romance. The scrutiny continues in this third volume, dedicated to the fantastic imagination and the plethora of themes, moods, media, and formats deriving from it.FanLit is surely trendy, even if it is not highbrow, despite its noble ancestry. This apparent paradox characterizes many of the literary genres en vogue today, from historical fiction to romance. This very contradiction forms part of the basis for this book. After the success of the previous book in the series dedicated to a borderline literary genre - Romance: The History of a Genre was declared by Cambridge Scholars Publishing as the Critics' Choice Book of the Month in January 2013 - this collection of studies about the fantastic imagination takes a further step into completing a larger research project which seeks to investigate the varieties of popular fiction. Although all contributors in the series teach canonical literary texts, they did not hesitate to plunge into the opposite area of fictional work and, moreover, continued doing so even though such a project caused the raise of a few (high)brows, (Percec 2012, 232) as argued in the Endnote of Romance: The History of a Genre.
About the Author: Dana Percec (b. 1976) is Associate Professor at the University of the West, Timi?oara, Romania. She has a BA in English, an MA in British and American Studies and a PhD in English Literature from the University of the West, Timisoara, Romania. Her main areas of interest are English literature, cultural studies, gender studies and language teaching. She has authored several books on Shakespeare and English culture, including The Body's Tale: Some Ado about Shakespearean Identities; Shakespeare and the Theatre: An Introduction; Anglia elisabetana. Ghid de istorie culturala [Elizabethan England: A Cultural History Guide]; Drama and Culture in Shakespeare's Age; and Anglia victoriana. Ghid de istorie culturala [Victorian England: A Cultural History Guide], and a collection of essays, titled De la Gargantua la Google [From Gargantua to Google], 2007. She has also co-authored two teaching practice guides and two collections of essays, edited two collections of essays about literary genres (O poveste de succes. Romanul istoric astazi [A Success Story: The Historical Novel Today, and Romance: The History of a Genre]), and co-edited another collection of essays (Despre lux [On Luxury]).


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  • ISBN-13: 9781443853873
  • Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Depth: 25
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Weight: 503 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1443853879
  • Publisher Date: 15 Feb 2014
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Height: 206 mm
  • No of Pages: 296
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: The Avatars of a Literary Genre
  • Width: 152 mm


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