The Game of the Impossible: A Rhetoric of Fantasy... In this first thorough examination of the genre, W.R. Irwin attempts to bring order to this phenomenon of cultural history by examining the common characteristics of fantasies written between 1880 and 1957 ... --book jacket. |
Contents
one Fantasy versus the Fantastic | 3 |
two Fantasy and Play | 11 |
three Help from the Critics | 33 |
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