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- noun art, literature A
genre of literature and film that overlaps with science fiction, horror and fantasy; associated chiefly with French literature
Etymologies
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Examples
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The second kind of fantastique is far more delirious.
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The second kind of fantastique is far more delirious.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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The former is rendered liminal in fantastique, where a sighting of a ghost, for example, has a modality of “might and/or might not have happened”.
Archive 2009-06-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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The former is rendered liminal in fantastique, where a sighting of a ghost, for example, has a modality of “might and/or might not have happened”.
Notes Toward a Theory of Narrative Modality Hal Duncan 2009
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Another option is the French term fantastique, which has a similarly wide application but which is, like "weird", hard to disassociate from the supernatural.
Archive 2006-09-01 Hal Duncan 2006
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Another option is the French term fantastique, which has a similarly wide application but which is, like "weird", hard to disassociate from the supernatural.
Strange Fiction 9 Hal Duncan 2006
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What the French call "fantastique" … Perhaps the reason there aren't quite as many female horror fans is that the genre is too often confined to gore and cheap scares.
Fatally Yours Fatally*Yours 2010
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What the French call "fantastique" … Perhaps the reason there aren't quite as many female horror fans is that the genre is too often confined to gore and cheap scares.
Fatally Yours 2010
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Or would it be more powerful to leave the truth unknown, leave the play in equipoise, an exemplar of Todorov's fantastique?
Archive 2010-01-01 Hal Duncan 2010
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Partial/Total: Conventionally, fantastique employs partial warp morphing, placing credibility and determinacy warps in equipoise, while mystery fiction employs total warp morphing, recasting all alethic quirks as cryptica.
Notes Toward a Theory of Narrative Modality Hal Duncan 2009
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