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Reporting the Fantastic: Deferral and Pan-determinism in Ugo Tarchetti

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This article explores how Ugo Tarchetti balances between the fantastic and the real in his narratives through explicit real-world location together with a deferral of the impossible. I argue that Tarchetti allows the fantastic and the real to coexist by enclosing the fantastic with reassuring markers, deferring its authenticity to lost manuscripts, or for the narrator to simply claim to be passing on a story. Additionally, I make the case that Tarchetti’s use of pan-determinism complements th...

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Published
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Peer reviewed

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10.1093/fmls/cqx036

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
HUMS
Department:
Medieval & Modern Languages Faculty
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Author
Publisher:
Oxford University Press Publisher's website
Journal:
Forum for Modern Language Studies Journal website
Volume:
53
Issue:
4
Pages:
430-443
Publication date:
2017-09-06
Acceptance date:
2016-04-13
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EISSN:
1471-6860
ISSN:
0015-8518
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pubs:630901
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uuid:09f36540-e8ca-422d-a5b9-a55338f630cd
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pubs:630901
Source identifiers:
630901
Deposit date:
2016-06-29

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