The Liminal Fantasy

That form of fantasy which estranges the reader from the fantastic as seen and described by the protaganist

Liminal fantasy relies on stable inrony, "a reconstructing of implied authors and implied readers that relies on inferences about intentions.. that often depend on our knowing facts a from outside the poem" Wayne C. Booth

Or it relies on "equipose" which means an equal distribution of weight; even balance

Or it relies on both to create a moment of doubt sometimes in the protaganist, but also in the reader, the two elements although related are distinguished here for a reason

The construction of liminal fantasy is knowingness- it depends on many fragments of something that has already been seen, read or done.

The dialect between reader and author is always central to the process of the construction of the fantastic

The construction builds on Jameson's argument that genres are social contracts between a writer and a specific public

The difficulty of this fantasy is it has no obvious boundaries

Collusion is not uncommon in other forms of fantasy it is intrinsic to the creation of the irony of the fantastic. Fantasies of equipose are like those of irony and dependent on recognition.