The Romanticist's Sublimation in Contemporary Fiction: A Reading of Baxter's 'The Cliff.

Journal Article

Sadiq, Ebtisam Ali . 1991

• نوع عمل المنشور: Literary Criticism
• الوسوم: Contemporary American Fiction
• المجلة \ الصحيفة: Abhath Al-Yarmouk [Al-Yarmouk U, Jordan]
• رقم العدد: 2
• رقم الإصدار السنوي: 9
• الصفحات: 9-21

مستخلص المنشور

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.