Use of Fantasy in J.M. Coetzee’s The Heart of the Country: A Critical Study
Keywords:
Fantasy, Genre, Reality, FictionAbstract
Fantasy as an independent genre is a recent invention. It was considered an inferior part of science fiction literature for a long time. Fantasy can be traced back to ancient myths, legends, folklore, carnival art as a perennial literary mode. Thus, it can be said that fantasy was a part of other genre in the earlier time and later on it became an independent genre. The tradition of epic fantasy came with chivalric novel. The true beginnings of the fantasy genre can be traced to the nineteenth century, according to Carter, where it appeared as a reaction to the industrialization of society. The present paper is an analysis of Coetzee‟s novel, The Heart of the Country to observe how he has used fantasy in his novels.
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