The Fantasy Novel (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)
Introduction
Contemporary publishers use the heading “fantasy” in a narrow sense that distinguishes the works bearing that label from those billed as “horror” or “science fiction,” but this distinction is a matter of marketing strategy that should not be taken too seriously. For the purposes of this essay, the term “fantasy” will be taken to refer to all works of fiction that attempt neither the realism of the realistic novel nor the “conditional realism” of science fiction.
Among modern critics, the primacy of the realistic novel is taken for...
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