CFP: [Collections] Forum for Modern Language Studies Special Issue - The Fantastic: An Enduring Literary Mode

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Sarah Leach

Forum for Modern Language Studies Special Issue - The Fantastic: An
Enduring Literary Mode

The fantastic is a literary mode which has proved its enduring appeal over
the past two hundred years and more. From its roots in the English Gothic
novel, the fantastic steadily entered the literary consciousness of
numerous different national traditions, with examples frequently being
written by some of the best-known names in these countries. This special
issue of Forum for Modern Language Studies will take account of
post-Todorovian critical thinking about the fantastic (Brooke-Rose, Ponnau,
von Mücke) in order to explore manifestations of this mode in various
countries. It will also address the range of ideas interrogated by the
fantastic: questions concerning the nature of the self, community, social
class and nation. Of particular interest will be investigations of the
historical development of the fantastic both within and between national
traditions (the influence of such key figures as Hoffmann and Poe; the
dialogue between the Russian and French traditions, for example), analyses
of examples of the mode by particular writers (from c.1800 to the present
day), as well as readings of the fantastic from socio-historical,
psychoanalytical, narratological or thematic angles.

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