La dimensión política de lo irreal: el componente ideológico en la narrativa fantástica española y catalana

The central issue of this book is to analyse fantastic short stories published from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first century by authors writing in Spanish and Catalan. The author studies the role that ideological elements play so that they increase the possible meanings of fantastic literature. Special attention is given to some themes discernible in the texts, such as the figure of the double, objects with preternatural powers and other fantastic phenomena. The book starts through a critical presentation of different theories on the literary fantastic, which here is understood as an independent narrative mode. Later it goes on considering the most important theories about the concept of ideology for the progression of this work, that is, with regard to categories related to the discourse of fantasticity and some historical aspects. Next these theoretical points are applied to analyse a selection of literary works written by outstanding authors of fantastic narrative from the Iberian area.