Behind the Frontiers of the Real: A Definition of the Fantastic

Offers for the first time an English translation of Roas' landmark work Tras los l?mites de lo real. Una definici?n de lo fant?stico (2011)

Examines the works of some Spanish authors born between 1960 and 1975 in order to establish the poetics of the contemporary fantastic, as well as a series of figures from global media

Provides a concept of the fantastic as an aesthetic category that allows for a definition of a multidisciplinary nature which is valid for literature and film as well as theater, comics, videogames, or any other art form that reflects on the characteristic conflict within the fantastic between the real and the impossible