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Contents
one Fantasy versus the Fantastic | 3 |
two Fantasy and Play | 11 |
three Help from the Critics | 33 |
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| Title | The game of the impossible: a rhetoric of fantasy |
| Author | William Robert Irwin |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Press, 1976 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Mar 4, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0252005872, 9780252005879 |
| Length | 215 pages |
| Subjects | › Fantastic fiction, American History and criticism Fantastic fiction, English History and criticism Fantasy fiction, American Fantasy fiction, American - History and criticism Fantasy fiction, English Fantasy fiction, English - History and criticism Fantasy in literature Literary Criticism / Science Fiction & Fantasy |
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