ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1984
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani
Vrsta: Teorija književnosti

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66997) FANTASY AND MIMESIS responses to reality in western literature , Kathryn Hume , Methuen New York and London 1984

U delu Fantasy and Mimesis: Responses to Reality in Western Literature (1984), Kathryn Hume nudi svež teorijski okvir koji odbacuje gledanje na fantastiku kao na izolovan žanr.

Umesto toga, ona tvrdi da su mimesis (podražavanje stvarnosti) i fantasy (otklon od stvarnosti) dva ravnopravna i neraskidiva impulsa koja pokreću svako književno stvaralaštvo.

Hume definiše fantastiku kao bilo koji namerni otklon od `konsenzusne stvarnosti`. Ona razlikuje četiri osnovna načina na koji književnost reaguje na stvarnost:

Književnost iluzije (Illusion): Fokusira se na bekstvo od stvarnosti (npr. pastoralna književnost, avanture).
Književnost vizije (Vision): Uvodi nove ili proširene realnosti (npr. naučna fantastika, mit).
Književnost revizije (Revision): Nastoji da poboljša ili promeni postojeću stvarnost kroz didaktičke programe.
Književnost razočaranja (Disillusion): Prikazuje stvarnost kao nesaznatljivu ili haotičnu, često koristeći apsurd i grotesku.
Knjiga obuhvata širok spektar dela, od islandskih saga i Odiseje do modernog `nouveau roman`-a, dokazujući da fantastika nije samo zabava, već ključno sredstvo za davanje smisla ljudskom iskustvu.

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 of fiction, identified by most critics as a minor genre. This book rejects generic definitions of fantasy, arguing that it is not a separate or even seperable strain in literary practice, but rather an impulse as significant as that of mimesis. Together, fantasy and mimesis are the twin impulses behind literary creation. In an analysis which ranges from the Icelandic sagas to science fiction, from Malory to pulp romance, from the Odyssey to the nouveau roman, Kathryn Hume systematically examines the various ways in which fantasy and mimesis contribute to literary representations of offering forms of escape in adventure stories, pastoral, face and pornography; complementing each other in expressive presentations of `new` realities; pressuring readers to accept a didactic author`s interpretation of reality; or battering the reader into agreeing that his or her interpretation is unprovable and that reality may indeed be unknowable.Only by acknowledging fantasy as a legitimate response to reality, and to our demand that reality be meaningful, can we appreciate its role in literature`s power to give readers a sense of meaning and its centrality to the creative imagination.
engleski jezik, mek povez, format 15 x 23 cm , 213 strana , potpis na predlistu