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This book attempts to reveal how the fantastic operates and how it
produces its effects, and analyses the devices and techniques used
by the fantastic in order to produce hesitation in the mind of the
reader. It proceeds through an analysis of one French and one
Russian work.
Hesitation between a natural or supernatural interpretation of
fictional events is the life-blood of the fantastic, but just how
is this hesitation provoked? In this detailed and insightful study,
Claire Whitehead uses examples from nineteenth-century French and
Russian literature to provide a range of narrative and syntactic
answers to this question. A close reading of eight key works by
Alexander Pushkin, Vladimir Odoevskii, Nikolai Gogol, Fedor
Dostoevskii, Theophile Gautier, Prosper Merimee and Guy de
Maupassant illustrates the decisive role played in the provocation
of ambiguity by factors such as modalization, point of view,
multiple voice and narrative authority. The analysis of hesitation
experienced in works depicting madness or ironic self-consciousness
advocates the inclusion into the genre of previously marginalized
texts. The close comparison of works from these two national
traditions shows that the fundamental discursive features of the
fantastic do not belong to any one language.
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