The Fantastic in France and Russia in the 19th Century: In Pursuit of Hesitation (Studies in Comparative Literature)

by Claire Whitehead (Author)

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  2006

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  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 ...