A Rhetoric of the Unreal: Studies in Narrative and Structure, Especially of the Fantastic - Paperbackby Christine Brooke Rose (Author) This 1981 book is a study of wide range of fiction, from short stories to tales of horror, from fairy tales and romances to science fiction, to which the rather loose term 'fantastic' has been applied. Cutting across this wide field, Professor Brooke Rose examines in a clear and precise way the essential differences between these types of narrative against the background of realistic fiction. In doing so, she employs