How the level of integration of the fantastic element into the fictional world influences reading – The Left Hand of Darkness, Dominion, Look Who's Back, and The Book Thief

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

How the level of integration of the fantastic element into the fictional world influences reading – The Left Hand of Darkness, Dominion, Look Who's Back, and The Book Thief

Original language description

The aim of this paper is to show a correlation between the level of integration of the fantastic element into the structure of the fictional world and the potential of literary works to be successfully read as both fantastic literature and non-genre literature, valuable for their meaning, transcendence and art of narration. It will introduce four levels of integration of the fantastic element and focus on two neighbouring levels: the fantastic element used as a platform and as a resource. Using four specific examples, I will try to distinguish very different attitudes toward the fantastic element and to argue that literary works using the fantastic element merely as a resource for expressing something else do not necessarily indicate failed fantasy, but create a specific fuzzy set within fantastic literature, which I call the fantastic as a means of expression (and which might be distinguished from the fuzzy set of the pure fantastic, characterised by the full contextualisation of the fantastic ele...

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AJ - Literature, mass media, audio-visual activities

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Bohemica litteraria

ISSN

1213-2144

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

18

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

115-129

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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