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A specter is haunting Europe : a sociohistorical approach to the fantastic / by José B. Monleón.
LIBRA PN56.F34 M59 1990
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Monleón, José B., 1950-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fantasy literature, European--History and criticism.
- Fantasy literature, European.
- Fantasy literature, Spanish--History and criticism.
- Fantasy literature, Spanish.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 177 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1990.
- Summary:
- Departing from established structuralist or psychological approaches to the fantastic, Jose Monleon offers an ideological reading of this literary product of mass culture. In an exploration of the origins and development of the fantastic, Monleon traces the relation of reason to unreason in light of three distinct events the influenced capitalist thinking: the French Revolution, the uprisings of 1848, and the Bolshevik Revolution.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-169) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0691068623
- OCLC:
- 21373509
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