Narratologiczna taksonomia fantasy: propozycje teoretycznoliterackie Farah Mendlesohn
A Narratologist Taxonomy of Fantasy: Literary-theoretical Proposals of Farah Mendlesohn

Summary/Abstract: The present article attempts at a critical discussion of taxonomical proposals of British scholar Farah Mendlesohn included in her study Rhetorics of Fantasy (2008). The study in question can be probably regarded as the most significant recent item in the academic discourse devoted to the theory (and taxonomy) of “fantastic” or non-mimetic literature, started more than 40 years ago by such notable researchers as, for example, Tzvetan Todorov or Eric Rabkin. From several reasons Mendlesohn’s study seems to occupy a special position in this discourse; the article analyzes both its indubitable achievements and possible shortcomings.

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