The following terms and concepts are likely to arise in English 341 Fantasy. Students should make sure they understand any of these that do arise and should notify Eric Rabkin (esrabkin@umich.edu) of any others that do arise but are not presently on this list. Many students have felt it helpful to print this list, carry it to class in their notebooks, and annotate it.

aesthetic fatigue (Kubler)
alienation
allegoresis
allegory
allusion
ambiguity v. ambivalence
anagnoresis (Aristotle)
anamnesis (Plato)
androgyne v. hermaphrodite
Aristotelian theory of aesthetic practice (techné)
art as exchange object (Marx)
atavism
being precedes consciousness (Marx)
Bildungsroman
biographical author / implied author / narrator / character (Booth)
biographical fallacy
bisociation (Koestler)
Brechtian alienation
children's literature (simplicity at 4 diachronic levels + format questions)
conceit
continuum of the fantastic
death & rebirth / baptism / monomyth (Campbell)
defamiliarization (Russian Formalism)
depth psychology / metaposcopy / behavioral psychology (e.g., operant conditioning)
deus ex machina
didacticism
displacement (Freud)
Doppelgänger
economic determinism
ego integration
episodic plot
escape
eternity / aevum / history (Kermode)
eucatastrophe (Tolkien)
Faërie: Fantasy (Imagination + Unreality), Recovery (of vision), Escape (liberation), Consolation (eucatastrophe) (Tolkien)
fairy tale
fairy tale characteristics (Lüthi)
fairy tale expliqué
fantastic / fantasy
folk tale characteristics
Fortunate Fall
frame (front, back, full; violation)
Freudian ego / superego / libido (arising from id)
genre development
Gothic (Horace Walpole)
Gothic expliqué (Radcliffe)
Hausmärchen (Grimm) / Kunstmärchen (Hoffmann)
illusion of central position (Freud)
image / symbol
imagery: garden, eye, flower, beach, water, fire, etc.
implied (ideal) reader / biographical reader (Iser)
intertextuality
ironic distance
ironic reversal
journey v. journey and return
Jungian mandala's psychic map: ego / double / dark double / anima / dark woman
katabasis
langue / écriture (grapholect) / style / parole (Barthes)
langue / parole (Saussure)
manifest v. latent content (Freud)
metamorphosis
metaphor / irony / propositional statement
motif
myth / story // Plato / Aristotle
nonsense
Nouveau roman (New Novel)
objective correlative (Eliot)
Oedipal conflict
Oedipus as story about knowledge, about transfer of power
omnipotence of thought (Freud)
ontology
paradigm(atic)
parataxis (paratactic) / hypotaxis (hypotactic) (Auerbach)
parody
periodization
person of narration / trustworthiness (reliability) of narration / limitation of narration
phenomenology
Platonic theory of aesthetic inspiration (lodestone metaphor)
plot / thematic development / character development / style/ &/v. setting
Proppian folktale
prosody
psychic economy (Freud)
puzzle
ratiocination (Tale of the Great Detective, SF)
reification
rhetoric of science
satire
self-reflexivity
semiotics (semiology)
signifier / signified
specific compensation
speech act theory (John R. Searle)
spring: comedy / summer: romance / fall: tragedy / winter: irony & satire --> myth (Frye)
story / plot (Russian Formalism)
structural analysis (Lévi-Strauss)
structure
sublimation
suspension of disbelief (Coleridge) / secondary belief (Tolkien)
synchronic / diachronic (Saussure)
syntagm(atic)
theodicy
tragedy & joke v. comedy
uncanny (Freud)
unity / variety / economy
utopia / eutopia / dystopia (anti-utopia)
PLUS questions raised by class