"With a tale he cometh to you": A Phenomenological Journey to the Center of Story.
This article adopts a phenomenological approach to the notion of "story," drawing most of its examples from texts in the fantasy genre. It proposes that a key to the nature and significance of stories may lie in the experiences to which they predictably give rise, something foreshadowed in the famou...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts Vol. 29; no. 3; pp. 422 - 445 |
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International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts
2018
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