Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Part I. The Real, the Unreal and the Rhetoric: 1. The real and the unreal; 2. The rhetoric; Part II. Method and Non-method in Genre Analysis: 3. Historic genres/theoretical genres: Torodov on the fantastic; 4. Science fiction and realistic fiction; Part III. The Pure Fantastic: Types of Analysis: 5. The encoded reader; 6. The Turn of the Screw and its critics: an essay in non-methodology; 7. The Turn of the Screw; mirror structures as basic structures; 8. The surface structures in The Turn of the Screw; Part IV. The Unreal as Real: the Modern Marvellous: 9. The evil ring: realism and the marvellous; 10. Titan plus: the new science fiction (Vonnegut and McElroy); Part V. The Real as Unreal: Some Modern Texts: 11. The real as unreal: Robbe-Grillet; 12. Transgressions; 13. Eximplosions; 14. Metafiction and surfiction: a simpler formal approach; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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Cutting across the wide field of 'fantastic' literature, Professor Brooke-Rose examines the essential differences between several 'fantastic' narratives against the background of realistic fiction.