A Specter is Haunting Europe: A Sociohistorical Approach to the Fantastic

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Departing from established structuralist or psychological approaches to the fantastic, Jos Monlecn offers an ideological reading of this literary product of mass culture. In an exploration of the origins and development of the fantastic, Monlecn traces the relation of reason to unreason in light of three distinct events that influenced capitalist t

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"Monleon has clearly demonstrated that even the relatively rigid definitions of fantastic ... are open to wide variation in their application to works if literature."--Canadian Review of Comparative Literature