Fantasy or fantastique?
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- fantasy fiction, fantastic literature, fantastique, The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre
- In common parlance, fantasy is relegated to the works of Tolkien et al, this wiki prefers the fantastique.
- Key critics of fantastic literature such as Rosemary Jackson, Christine Brooke-Rose, and Tzvetan Todorov all see Tolkien as beyond their parameters. Jackson’s work is largely concerned with fantasy elements within realist literature, while Todorov and Brooke-Rose see Tolkien as a creator of secondary worlds, no longer a fantasy writer, but a creator of the marvellous, placing him outside their studies. –-Sara Upstone
Although both the terms fantasy and fantastique are derived from the word fantasy, each term is used in English to denote a different sensibility in literature. Fantasy is generally held to be more based on logical worldbuilding typical for British analytic philosophy, and fantastique is more connected with ambiguities of continental postmodernism.
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- Introduction à la littérature fantastique (1970), translated as The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre.
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