Fabulation

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Fabulation is a style or genre of fiction that is influenced by magic realism, but does not fit into the traditional categories of realism or (novelistic) romance. Fabulating authors include Thomas Pynchon, John Barth, Donald Barthelme, William H. Gass, Robert Coover, and Ishmael Reed.[1] The term was popularized by Robert Scholes, in his work The Fabulators (1967). As M. H. Abrams wrote, Page Template:Blockquote/styles.css has no content.

[Such novels] violate, in various ways, standard novelistic expectations by drastic—and sometimes highly effective—experiments with subject matter, form, style, temporal sequence, and fusions of the everyday, the fantastic, the mythical, and the nightmarish, in renderings that blur traditional distinctions between what is serious or trivial, horrible or ludicrous, tragic or comic.[1]

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  1. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Abrams, M. H. (2005). A Glossary of Literary Terms. With contributions by Geoffrey Galt Harpham (8th ed.). Boston, MA: Thomson/Wadsworth. p. 204. ISBN 1-4130-0218-8. Retrieved 7 February 2023.

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