La literatura fantástica: una revisión bibliográfica.

Abstract

The paper surveys the different theoretical approaches in this century devoted to fantastic literature with a particular focus on narrative elements such as structure and themes. It is widely considered its social and philosophical bases, since primarily the fantastic means the encounter with the other. Also, the links of this kind of literature with fairy tales and science - fiction are considered. Fantastic literature is usually regarded as an evolution of fairy tales and as the origin of science - fiction. Thorughout the exposition it is clearly demonstrated that most theories derive from a freudian approach, wich was introduced by Peter Penzoldt. However manifest disenssions are held among the contri-. butors to fantastic theory, most of all in the differentiation of fantastic and fantasy, which are usually considered as regarding to the same concept. The latter, however refers to the modern type of fairy - tale.