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Common terms and phrasesabsolute attempt become bourgeois C.S. Lewis Caleb Carroll character critical cultural order death demonic desire devil Dickens dominant Dostoevsky double Dracula dualism empty entropy evil faery fairy fantastic literature fantastic narrative fantastic text fantasy fear Frankenstein Freud function genre ghost Gormenghast Gothic fiction Gravity's Rainbow H.P. Lovecraft Helene Cixous horror horror fiction human Hyde ideal ideology imaginary impossible Invisible Jekyll Jolly Corner Kafka language Lewis Carroll Lilith literary fantasy London MacDonald magical marvellous Mary Shelley Mary Shelley's meaning Melmoth the Wanderer metamorphosis metaphor mirror mode modern fantastic monster myth narrator natural novels object paraxial Poe's psychoanalytic Pynchon reader realistic reality realm relation represented romance Sade Sade's secular semantic sexual signifying social space story strange structures subversive supernatural Sylvie and Bruno symbolic taboos tale thematic themes things tion Todorov Tolkien tradition transformation transgression uncanny unconscious undifferentiation unity unreal vampire Victorian vision writes References to this bookFrom other books
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