Introduction

Presentation

Epistemological Tools

Defining a Genre

Genrification

The Fantasy Mode

Mendlesohn’s Rhetorics of Fantasy

I) Extra-Diegetic Pressure

a. Of Fairies and Spaceships: Intertextuality

(Not So) Passive Princesses and (Not So) Shining Armour

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall...

(Star) Wars and Peace

b. One is not born a man...

Of Violence and Non-Violence

Sexual Abstinence

II) Building a World

a. A Rose by Any Other Name...

Fantastic Languages

The Human Pronoun

True Names

b. Fantastic Societies

Matriarchs

Mater Familias

c. The False Immersion: Rhetorics of Androgyny

Immersion into Androgyny

Androgyny as Intrusion

III) Through the Portal

a. Stranger in a Strange Land

Isolation and Recontextualisation

Mars and Venus

Subverting the Guide Figure

b. The Fabric of Isolation

Narrators and Focalizers

Chasms and Bridges

World Reduction

A Shadow on Snow

Conclusion

Appendices

a. Glossary

b. Of “High” and “Low” Literature

c. Correspondence on Japanese and Gender (Yuri Naito & Shiho Yamamoto)

d. A Left Handed Translation

e. Correspondence on Translation (Ursula K. Le Guin)

f. Correspondence on Russian Names (Tamara Shtanova)

Bibliography