The Fantastic as Heuresis

Árpád Kovács

IN: Partitúra Irodalomtudományi folyóirat, Volme VIII. , Issue 1, 2013, p. 3-31 , ISSN 1336-7307

DOI: 10.17846/PA.2013.8.1.3-31

Abstract:

The author of the study attempts to articulate a new problem area with regards to the fantastic literature by approaching its subject from the aspect of poetics, rhetoric and linguistic comprehension. The study discusses the material, the- matic and formal alogisms and paradoxes, and it opposes them against the for- mula of hypallage as a semantic operation ensuring to overcome fantasy, dream and fiction as well as specifically to facilitate achieving the fantastic universe. This operation is aimed at the motivation of the human intellect and it reaches its goal in the heuristic recognition. The statements of the study are supported by the interpretation of dostoevsky’s The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, as well as by the analysis of the works of Gogol, Turgenev, Poe, Voltaire, Victor Hugo and Nietzsche, and also by the criticism of the current standing of the theory of the fantastic.

Keywords: dream, fantastic, fiction, enthymema, grotesque, hypallage, heuresis, semantics of metaphor, Fjodor dostoevsky, sigmund Freud, Friedrich Nietzsche, igor smirnov, vladimir solovjov, Tzvetan Todorov

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