The A To Z Of Fantasy Literature
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The A To Z Of Fantasy Literature
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Author : Brian Stableford
language : en
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Release Date : 2009-08-13
The A To Z Of Fantasy Literature written by Brian Stableford and has been published by Scarecrow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
Once upon a time all literature was fantasy, set in a mythical past when magic existed, animals talked, and the gods took an active hand in earthly affairs. As the mythical past was displaced in Western estimation by the historical past and novelists became increasingly preoccupied with the present, fantasy was temporarily marginalized until the late 20th century, when it enjoyed a spectacular resurgence in every stratum of the literary marketplace. Stableford provides an invaluable guide to this sequence of events and to the current state of the field. The chronology tracks the evolution of fantasy from the origins of literature to the 21st century. The introduction explains the nature of the impulses creating and shaping fantasy literature, the problems of its definition and the reasons for its changing historical fortunes. The dictionary includes cross-referenced entries on more than 700 authors, ranging across the entire historical spectrum, while more than 200 other entries describe the fantasy subgenres, key images in fantasy literature, technical terms used in fantasy criticism, and the intimately convoluted relationship between literary fantasies, scholarly fantasies, and lifestyle fantasies. The book concludes with an extensive bibliography that ranges from general textbooks and specialized accounts of the history and scholarship of fantasy literature, through bibliographies and accounts of the fantasy literature of different nations, to individual author studies and useful websites.
The A To Z Of Fantasy Literature
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Author : Brian M. Stableford
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
The A To Z Of Fantasy Literature written by Brian M. Stableford and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Electronic books categories.
The Cambridge Companion To Fantasy Literature
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Author : Edward James
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012-01-26
The Cambridge Companion To Fantasy Literature written by Edward James and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-26 with Literary Criticism categories.
This is the first introduction to the whole field of modern fantasy literature in the English-speaking world.
Other Worlds
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Author : John H. Timmerman
language : en
Publisher: Popular Press
Release Date : 1983
Other Worlds written by John H. Timmerman and has been published by Popular Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Fantasy fiction categories.
Fantasy permits its readers a certain distance from pragmatic affairs and offers them a clearer insight into them. It offers a parallel reality, which gives us a renewed awareness of what we already know. Fantasy invites the reader to recover a belief which has been beclouded by knowledge, to renew a faith which has been shattered by fact. As the pace of modern life quickens, the fascination for fantasy literature quickens simultaneously.
Fantasy Literature
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Author : Marshall B. Tymn
language : en
Publisher: New York : R. R. Bowker Company
Release Date : 1979
Fantasy Literature written by Marshall B. Tymn and has been published by New York : R. R. Bowker Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Fantastic fiction, American, Bibliography categories.
Handbook for the study of fantasy literature with a comprehensive introduction to the genre, an annotated bibliography of over 240 core works, and research aids for fantasy scholars
The Fantasy Literature Of England
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Author : Colin N. Manlove
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2020-05-11
The Fantasy Literature Of England written by Colin N. Manlove and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
In this, the first book on English fantasy, Colin Manlove shows that for all its immense diversity, English fantasy can best be understood in terms of its strong national character, rather than as an international genre. Showing its development from Beowulf to Blake, the author describes English fantasy's modern growth through secondary world, metaphysical, emotive, comic, subversive, and children's fantasy. In them all England has led the world, with authors as different as Chaucer, Lewis Carroll, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Salman Rushdie.
Alternative Worlds In Fantasy Fiction
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Author : Peter Hunt
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2005-08-15
Alternative Worlds In Fantasy Fiction written by Peter Hunt and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-08-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Edited by Morag Styles and written by an international team of acknowledged experts, this series provides jargon-free, critical discussion and a comprehensive guide to literary and popular texts for children. Each book introduces the reader to a major genre of children's literature, covering the key authors, major works and contexts in which those texts are published, read and studied. This book provides an illuminating guide to literature that creates alternative worlds for young readers. Focusing on the work of Ursula Le Guin, Terry Pratchett and Philip Pullman, the book considers both the genre of ?alternative worlds? and the distinctiveness of these authors? texts, including Philip Pullman's The Amber Spyglass.
The Impulse Of Fantasy Literature
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Author : Colin N. Manlove
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2020-06-30
The Impulse Of Fantasy Literature written by Colin N. Manlove and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book grew out of the author's wish to go beyond a formal definition of fantasy to discover a basic urge and interest common to the genre. He finds this urge to be the celebration of identity. Fantasy is ultimately concerned to heighten and praise being, whether that being is God's creation, the world, or the creations of the fantasy writer themselves. This interest can take the form of direct eulogy or of more unconscious fascination. It is seen in fantasy's conservatism and its frequently elegiac mode, and is demonstrated through its formal characteristics such as circular structure and the use of juxtaposition to heighten individuality. It is more overtly present in modern than in pre-1800 fantasy, partly because modern fantasy developed as a Romantic reaction against technology and everything that reduced direct contact between people and the environment. These aspects of fantasy are illustrated from detailed discussion of the tales of Grimm, Walter de la Mare's Told Again, W. M. Thackeray's The Rose and the Ring, Charles Williams's prose fantasies, Ursula le Guin's Earthsea trilogy, E. Nesbit's magic books, George MacDonald's Phantastes and Lilith, T. H. White's The Once and Future King, Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast novels, William Morris's late romances, Lord Dunsany's The King of Elfland's Daughter, E. R. Eddison's The Worm Ouroboros, and Peter Beagle's The Last Unicorn. Together these authors and works provide a cross-section of what is a fundamentally panegyric genre demonstrating its variety, its strengths, and its limitations.
Exploring Fantasy Literature
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Author : Weronika Łaszkiewicz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
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Survey Of Modern Fantasy Literature
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
Survey Of Modern Fantasy Literature written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with categories.