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Brumal: Revista de Investigación sobre lo Fantástico
About: Brumal: Revista de Investigación sobre lo Fantástico is an academic journal. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Fantasy & Comics. Over the lifetime, 206 publications have been published receiving 135 citations.
Topics: Fantasy, Comics, Fictional universe, Zombie, Uncanny
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TL;DR: Alegre et al. as discussed by the authors analyzed comparativamente the figura de los ninos monstruosos in two obras de ficcion contemporaneas: the pelicula El orfanato de Juan Antonio Bayona (2007) and the novela Distancia de rescate de Samanta Schweblin (2014).
Abstract: Este articulo analiza comparativamente la figura de los ninos monstruosos en dos obras de ficcion contemporaneas: la pelicula El orfanato de Juan Antonio Bayona (2007) y la novela Distancia de rescate de Samanta Schweblin (2014). Los personajes infantiles juegan en ambas obras un rol decisivo, puesto que las dos tramas se contruyen en torno al horror suscitado por los infantes, tanto fisica —en ambas obras la deformidad del cuerpo sera un tema importante—como moralmente —los ninos monstruosos son una entidad ominosa (Freud, 1919), que inquieta y extrana. Por medio de un analisis comparativo, se busca dar cuenta de afinidades y discrepancias en la construccion de la figura del nino monstruoso, asi como observar su funcion y relevancia en la produccion del terror. Todo ello finalmente nos permitira concluir que los ninos monstruosos materializan temores y fantasias de los adultos, reflejando de este modo sus propias culpas (Martin Alegre, 2001).
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TL;DR: In this article, a theoretical foundation for a type of fantastic transgression that occurs due to the incursion of an impossible spatial element within a realistic frame shared by narrator and reader is developed.
Abstract: This article develops a theoretical foundation for a type of fantastic transgression that occurs due to the incursion of an impossible spatial element within a realistic frame shared by narrator and reader. A variety of 19th, 20th and 21st century short stories and short films are examined to establish a theoretical outline for this transgressive phenomenon, here denominated «the fantastic as a phenomenon of space», or «the fantastic of space». Three categories of this phenomenon are proposed: the transgressions of the «body» and the notion of being (physically and existentially) in space, of the «boundary» and the principles of definition and circumscription, and «hierarchy», related to the dialogue between container and contained. Ultimately, these three categories meet within one single motif: the fantastic hole, presented as a paradigmatic spatial distortion of the fantastic as a phenomenon of space.
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TL;DR: There are good reasons to call London the capital of urban fantasy Like no other city it embodies an intertwinedness of enlightenment and modernity with notions of the occult, the mythical and the magical as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: There are good reasons to call London the capital of urban fantasy Like no other city it embodies an intertwinedness of enlightenment and modernity with notions of the occult, the mythical and the magical The idea of an urban underworld that somehow is the dark mirror of the city is central for the depiction of a fantastic London I will look into three examples of urban fantasy: Neil Gaiman’s novel Neverwhere (1996), China Mieville’s story Reports of Certain Events in London (2004), and Peter Ackroyd’s novel Hawksmoor (1985) that portray London as a liminal space and a gothic heterotopia
6 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors study how the Theory of Relativity and Quantum Mechanics have influenced the configuration of the fantastic and verify if these branches of physics are capable of explaining certain fantastic phenomena.
Abstract: The fantastic is based on three pillars: reality, the impossible and fear. Theoretical physics is a branch of science that has deeply studied reality, from the subatomic world to the immensity of outer space. In this article, we want to study how the Theory of Relativity and the Quantum Mechanics have influenced the configuration of the fantastic, and in addition, we want to verify if these branches of physics are capable of explaining certain fantastic phenomena.
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TL;DR: A partir del peso especifico que cobran en la cultura zombi las relaciones transficcionales y los saltos transmediales, analiza los principales remakes Z hispanos.
Abstract: El articulo, a partir del peso especifico que cobran en la cultura zombi las relaciones transficcionales y los saltos transmediales, analiza los principales remakes Z hispanos —inspirados en el Lazarillo , en el Quijote y en La casa de Bernarda Alba —, viendo en estos cruces e interferencias de diferentes codigos, asi como referencias intertextuales que arrancan fundamentalmente del uso de la metaliteratura como mecanismo legitimador frente a una obra original que sirve al receptor para recodificarla/expansionarla en una nueva version que busca establecer dialogos entre la literatura realista y la cultura pop de corte no mimetico.
4 citations