... An exile from the realm of fantasy, that is, the despair of a Slavic intellectual. ... by Aleksandra Hudymač

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Colonizing the fantastic: Reading Stephenie Meyer’s Breaking Dawn as all-in-one text by Baysar Tanıyan

“…The article will argue that the last novel of the series, Breaking Dawn, exploits various genres while trying to remain in the realm of fantasy. These genres may be listed as romance, erotic romance, uncanny (or the fantastic), epic and, finally, the fairy tale. …”
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Mysterious Illnesses of Human Commodities in Woody Allen and Franz Kafka by Iris Bruce

“…Unlike Kafka, though, Woody Allen grants Zelig a cure in the end, a cure which is possible only in the realm of fantasy.…”
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Japan and Japanese Reminiscences in the Collection by Richard G. Brautigan “June 30th, June 30th

“…The postmodern image of the lyrical character, who acutely feels his loneliness, comes to the forefront; for him, Japan for the first time shifts from the realm of fantasy to the realm of actual experience, which pushes the poet towards introspection. …”
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Die mediëvalistiese karikatuur van seksuele verval in Laat-Middeleeuse vrouekloosters by Johann Beukes

“…Concluding that the ‘promiscuous monk’ was a far more general phenomenon than the ‘wayward nun’ in the Later Middle Ages, Knudsen’s analysis confirms that the Middle Ages is still as much a domain of research as it is a realm of fantasy today. The modernist fixation on the Late-Medieval ‘wayward nun’ is, for example, expressed in Heinrich Lossow’s (1843–1897) provocative painting Die Versündigung (ca.1880). …”
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