by Rosemary Jackson · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780416711806
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«Fantasy, the literature of subversion» is Rosemary Jackson's literary criticism essay, published by Methuen in paperback (211 pages, in English).
It defends fantasy as a narrative genre in its own right, not as escapism. Jackson expands Todorov's ideas with psychoanalysis and analyzes the double, metamorphosis and bodily disintegration in Gothic and Victorian fiction and authors such as Mary Shelley, Hoffmann or Kafka, showing that they express unconscious conflicts and cultural unease.
Work originally published in 1981 in the New Accents series; includes bibliography and indexes.
For literature students and readers interested in critical theory, psychoanalysis and the roots of modern fantasy.
