近日，我院外籍教师Ezio Puglia的论文《超越理论的文类：历史中的奇幻叙事》（“A genre beyond theory: the fantastic in history”）于Neohelicon期刊上发表。

ABSTRACT: This article investigates the historical development and conceptual instability of the fantastic in literary studies, particularly within Anglophone tradition. Circumventing the definitional disputes that have long polarized criticism, the essay foregrounds a historical approach. It shows that a distinct, self-aware literary genre known as the fantastic, or rather le fantastique, did in fact emerge in France in the 1830s, catalyzed by the reception of E.T.A. Hoffmann’s works. Through historiographic reconstruction, the article reveals how the fantastic was shaped by a coherent oversimplification of Hoffmann’s poetics, as well as by market forces, and national intellectual traditions. French critics and writers such as J.-J. Ampère, P. Duvergier de Hauranne, T. Gautier, and Ch.-Au. de Sainte-Beuve codified this genre around a distinctive tension between the real and the extraordinary—following a binary structure that would later inform many twentieth-century academic theories. While acknowledging later transformations and hybridizations, the essay asserts that understanding the historical specificity of the fantastic is vital for clarifying its place within nonrealistic literature, and for resisting the conceptual flattening of its identity in critical discourse. In particular, the article critiques the problematic absence—or superficial treatment—of the fantastic in contemporary scholarship on the gothic and the weird, arguing that a transgeneric approach would prove more fruitful when investigating nineteenth-century non-realistic and/or supernatural literature.