Ellipse of Uncertainty: An Introduction to Postmodern Fantasy

Ellipse of Uncertainty: An Introduction to Postmodern Fantasy

by Lance Olsen
Ellipse of Uncertainty: An Introduction to Postmodern Fantasy

Ellipse of Uncertainty: An Introduction to Postmodern Fantasy

by Lance Olsen

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Overview

This fascinating study of literary theory is the first work of its kind to examine the intersection of fantasy and postmodernism, and to analyze contemporary fantasy writers comparatively. After carefully developing working definitions of postmodernism and fantasy, the author goes on to analyze works by various postmodernist fantasy writers. Olsen's approach is eclectic, bringing to each text or textual complex those forces he feels most interestingly stir up its sediment—be they biographical, structural, psychoanalytic, philosophical, reader-response, or otherwise. Finally he argues that postmodern fantasy is the literary equivalent of deconstructionism, for it interrogates all we take for granted about language and experience, giving these no more than shifting and provisional status. It may be seen as a mode of radical skepticism that believes only in the possiblilty of total intelligibility.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780313255113
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 04/03/1987
Series: Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy , #26
Pages: 150
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.50(d)
Lexile: 1380L (what's this?)

About the Author

LANCE OLSEN is Professor of English at the University of Kentucky.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Prelude: Nameless Things and Thingless Names
Diagnosing Fantastic Autism: Kafka, Borges, and Robbe-Grillet
I Stink, Therefore I (S)am: Functions, Fantasy, Beckett
Metamorphosis in Fuentes' Aura
Pynchon's New Nature: Indeterminacy and The Crying of Lot 49
Misfires in Eden: Garcia Marquez and Narrative Frustration
The Presence of Absence: Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians
Postlude
Bibliography

Index

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