"The Yellow Wallpaper" and Liminal Fantasy
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Is Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" a Fantasy text? Well... maybe? Join me in exploring the idea of "The Yellow Wallpaper" as a liminal fantasy, as per the classifications by Farah Mendlesohn in her critical text Rhetorics of Fantasy.
Works Cited
Armitt, Lucie. Theorising the Fantastic. New York, Arnold, 1996.
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. “The Yellow Wallpaper”. Project Gutenberg, www.gutenberg.org/files/1952/1952-h/1952-h.htm. Accessed 26 Oct. 2016.
Jackson, Rosemary. Fantasy: The Literature of Subversion. New York, Routledge, 1993.
Mendlesohn, Farah. Rhetorics of Fantasy. Wesleyan UP, 2008.
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