A review by wmhenrymorris
Rhetorics of Fantasy by Farah Mendlesohn

When it comes to literary criticism, especially any type that tries to structure, define or describe groupings of texts, what matters most is if the approach put forth allows one to say interesting things about the texts and come up with interesting connections across texts. While Mendelsohn's four types of fantasy may not be some sort of universal key to apply to fantastic fiction, what I like about this book is that it dives deep into how the fantastic enters into/shows up in fiction (mostly novels).