“Nevertheless, the potential and actual importance of fantastic literature lies in such psychic links: what appears to be the result of an overweening imagination, boldly and arbitrarily defying the laws of time, space and ordered causality, is closely connected with,… — Franz Rottensteiner Copy Share Image
“Fantastic literature has been especially prominent in times of unrest, when the older values have been overthrown to make way for the new; it has often accompanied or predicted change, and served to shake up rational Complacency, challenging reason and… — Franz Rottensteiner Copy Share Image
“As has already been noted, fantastic literature developed at precisely the moment when genuine belief in the supernatural was on the wane, and when… — Franz Rottensteiner Copy Share Image
“Many of the best fantastic stories begin in a leisurely way, set in commonplace surroundings, with exact, meticulous descriptions of an ordinary background, much… — Franz Rottensteiner Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless, the potential and actual importance of fantastic literature lies in such psychic links: what appears to be the result of an overweening imagination,… — Franz Rottensteiner Copy Share Image
“The fantastic postulates that there are forces in the outside world, and in our own natures, which we can neither know nor control, and… — Franz Rottensteiner Copy Share Image
“Fantastic literature has been especially prominent in times of unrest, when the older values have been overthrown to make way for the new; it… — Franz Rottensteiner Copy Share Image
