Abstract
Critics have long debated the degree to which Janet Frame is a social-realist writer. To understand Frame’s fiction properly, we need to see it in the context of fantastic literature as a whole, and especially the modern fable. The fable offers Frame an opportunity to explore the realm of the imagination while expressing deeply held views on social and philosophical questions. The Lagoon and Other Stories contains both fables and largely realist stories that employ elements of the fable. Fables like “Spirit” and realist stories like “Swans” thus need to be read in the light of the techniques of fantastic literature in general and the modern fable in particular.
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