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Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997)
Anti-Fantasy

Tagged: Theme.

A term used to make a theoretical distinction in the literatures of the Fantastic between Fantasy – which (it is argued) presents a world that requires an act of belief from the reader – and certain genres, like the Fairytale, where "Enchantment exists of itself, and the reader's participation in it is scarcely intellectual", as W R Irwin puts it in The Game of the Impossible: a Rhetoric of Fantasy (1976). [JC]



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