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dc.contributor.advisorErisman, Fred
dc.contributor.advisorOpperman, Harry
dc.contributor.authorHowell, Pamela R.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-10-11T15:10:27Z
dc.date.available2019-10-11T15:10:27Z
dc.date.created1983en_US
dc.date.issued1983en_US
dc.identifieraleph-254741en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/32625
dc.description.abstractStructural homologies exist among the imperatives of quantum theory, the conventions of fantasy, and the contemporary American novel through its literary tradition of Transcendental wonder. These components assume an underlying attitude of belief, an attitude of episteme, which relates knowledge to values. As two sides--the popular and the literary mainstream--of the same rhetorical imperative impulse, Tom Robbins and Robert Coover are explicit in their desires to assimilate and then disseminate the constructive and destructive assumptions of the primary intellectual climate generated from quantum theory in their use of form and in their examination of content. Through fantasy with its tenets of belief, participation, and alternative views, they find a viable construct with which to approach the aesthetic and cultural intellectual climate. The rhetoric of their metafantasies is concerned with language as an imaginative construct and as a tool of the human imagination and is bent toward the merging of an ontological age with an epistemological age. Such mergings integrate the reader as spectator/participant in the creation of a text and its meanings. The freedom of the imagination is what the rhetorical imperative of fantasy contemporaneously explores and celebrates.
dc.format.extentiv, 240 leaves, bounden_US
dc.format.mediumFormat: Printen_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.relation.ispartofTexas Christian University dissertationen_US
dc.relation.ispartofAS38.H673en_US
dc.subject.lcshEnglish language--Rhetoricen_US
dc.subject.lcshRhetoricen_US
dc.subject.lcshFantasy in literatureen_US
dc.titleReality as fabulous: fantasy as rhetorical imperative in the contemporary American novelen_US
dc.typeTexten_US
etd.degree.departmentDepartment of English
etd.degree.levelDoctoral
local.collegeAddRan College of Liberal Arts
local.departmentEnglish
local.academicunitDepartment of English
dc.type.genreDissertation
local.subjectareaEnglish
dc.identifier.callnumberMain Stacks: AS38 .H673 (Regular Loan)
dc.identifier.callnumberSpecial Collections: AS38 .H673 (Non-Circulating)
etd.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy
etd.degree.grantorTexas Christian University


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