A topic within Genre Fiction, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Literature.
2 works
Lewis Carroll
Follows a relentlessly logical child through a world of literalised nonsense and broken rules, using absurdity as a way of exposing how arbitrary the adult rules of language and manners actually are.
link checked 17 Sept 2026George MacDonald
Sends its narrator into Fairy Land with no allegorical key ever supplied, arguing that fantasy's value lies in the imaginative experience itself rather than in any single moral it can be decoded into.
about 4.5 hours to readlink checked 17 Sept 2026