The Romanticist's Sublimation in Contemporary Fiction: A Reading of Baxter's 'The Cliff.
Sadiq, Ebtisam Ali . 1991
Contemporary American Fiction
This paper investigates the revival of the superhuman element in contemporary fiction. It analyzes a postmodern magic-realist story called “The Cliff” and compares it with some English Romantic poems. It finds that magic-realism can be, at times, a parody of the Romantic poet’s sublimation into Nature.
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