Topic summary
Fantastic literature
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Fantastique.
Definition
However, the English term "fantastic" can sometimes be used in the French sense as in the Literary Encyclopedia, since the term was translated as above in the English translation of Todorov's essay. This is nonetheless a minority use and much of the English critical literature that discusses fantastic literature associates the word with a broader meaning related to fantasy as in the works of Eric Rabkin, Rosemary Jackson, Lucie Armitt and David Sandner. The polysemy of the word fantastic and the difference of critical traditions of each country have led to controversies such as the one led by Stanislaw Lem.