Fantasy and Mimesis: Responses to Reality in Western Literature by Kathryn Hume

Fantasy and Mimesis: Responses to Reality in Western Literature

Kathryn Hume

213 pages • paperback • 1984

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Since Plato and Aristotle's declaration of the essence of literature as imitation, western narrative has been traditionally discussed in mimetic terms. Thus marginalized, fantasy - the deliberate departure from reality - has become the hidden face...

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