Mark Rose
calls this collection a difficult, and somewhat miscellaneous book,
Rose, Mark. “Review of A Rhetoric of the Unreal: Studies in Narrative and Structure, Especially of the Fantastic by Christine Brooke-Rose”. Comparative Literature, No. 3, pp. 169 - 71.
169
but finds that CBR
is at her best when analyzing and revising writers' conceptions.
Rose, Mark. “Review of A Rhetoric of the Unreal: Studies in Narrative and Structure, Especially of the Fantastic by Christine Brooke-Rose”. Comparative Literature, No. 3, pp. 169 - 71.
171
Frank Kermode
notes that its expository mode [is]...