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Table of Contents: “…Clinamen: towards a theory of fantasy /…”

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: It was a great marvel that they were in the father without knowing him -- Introduction: A meditation upon priority and a synopsis -- Clinamen or poetic misprision -- Tessera or completion and antithesis -- Kenosis or repetition and discontinuity -- Interchapter: A manifesto for antithetical criticism -- Daemonization or the counter-sublime -- Askesis or prugation and solipsism -- Apophrades or the return of the dead -- Epilogue: Reflections upon the path.…”

Table of Contents: “…Lovecraft -- Critics (1956) / Damon Knight -- The mythos of summer : romance (1957) / Northrop Frye -- Characteristics of genre and plot composition in Dostoevsky's works (1963) / Mikhail Bakhtin -- Definitions of territory : fantasy (1970) / Italo Calvino -- The fantastic : a structural approach to a literary genre (1970) / Tzvetan Todorov -- From Elfland to Poughkeepsie (1973) / Ursula Le Guin -- Introduction to Modern fantasy (1975) / Colin Manlove -- The fantastic and fantasy (1976) / Eric Rabkin -- The evolution of a word (1979) / Stephen Prickett -- Magical narratives : on the dialectical use of genre criticism (1981) / Fredric Jameson -- The encounter with fantasy (1982) / Gary Wolfe -- Clinamen : towards a theory of fantasy (1982) / Harold Bloom -- Literary fantasy and ecological comedy (1985) / Don D. …”