Abstract
THEREappears to be no generally-agreed definition of fantasy, but one of the essential criteria to which a would-be fantastic tale must conform is surely that of having its starting-point in the familiar world, so that the reader is led gently into an unfamiliar world, without ceasing to believe in the plausibility of the tale. The best description of the process remains Hoffmann's, in Die Serapionsbriider:
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