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Rhetorics of Fantasy

2014-01-01 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2014-01-01
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Book Synopsis Rhetorics of Fantasy by : Farah Mendlesohn

Download or read book Rhetorics of Fantasy written by Farah Mendlesohn. This book was released on 2014-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sweeping study of fantasy literature offers “new and often surprising readings of works both familiar and obscure. A fine critical work” (Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts). Transcending arguments over the definition of fantasy literature, Rhetorics of Fantasy introduces a provocative new system of classification for the genre. Drawing on nearly two hundred examples of modern fantasy, author Farah Mendlesohn identifies four categories—portal-quest, immersive, intrusion, and liminal—that arise out of the relationship of the protagonist to the fantasy world. Using these sets, Mendlesohn argues that the author's stylistic decisions are then shaped by the inescapably political demands of the category in which they choose to write. Each chapter covers at least twenty books in detail, ranging from nineteenth-century fantasy and horror to some of the best works in the contemporary field. Mendlesohn discusses works by more than one hundred authors, including Lloyd Alexander, Peter Beagle, Marion Zimmer Bradley, John Crowley, Stephen R. Donaldson, Stephen King, C. S. Lewis, Gregory Maguire, Robin McKinley, China Miéville, Suniti Namjoshi, Philip Pullman, J. K. Rowling, Sheri S. Tepper, J. R. R. Tolkien, Tad Williams, and many others.

Rhetorics of Fantasy

2008-04-30 Language Arts & Disciplines
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Release : 2008-04-30
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis Rhetorics of Fantasy by : Farah Mendlesohn

Download or read book Rhetorics of Fantasy written by Farah Mendlesohn. This book was released on 2008-04-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining fantasy literature

The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature

2012-01-26 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2012-01-26
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature by : Edward James

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature written by Edward James. This book was released on 2012-01-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fantasy is a creation of the Enlightenment, and the recognition that excitement and wonder can be found in imagining impossible things. From the ghost stories of the Gothic to the zombies and vampires of twenty-first-century popular literature, from Mrs Radcliffe to Ms Rowling, the fantastic has been popular with readers. Since Tolkien and his many imitators, however, it has become a major publishing phenomenon. In this volume, critics and authors of fantasy look at its history since the Enlightenment, introduce readers to some of the different codes for the reading and understanding of fantasy, and examine some of the many varieties and subgenres of fantasy; from magical realism at the more literary end of the genre, to paranormal romance at the more popular end. The book is edited by the same pair who produced The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction (winner of a Hugo Award in 2005).

Children's Fantasy Literature

2016-04-16 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2016-04-16
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Book Synopsis Children's Fantasy Literature by : Michael Levy

Download or read book Children's Fantasy Literature written by Michael Levy. This book was released on 2016-04-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fantasy has been an important and much-loved part of children's literature for hundreds of years, yet relatively little has been written about it. Children's Fantasy Literature traces the development of the tradition of the children's fantastic - fictions specifically written for children and fictions appropriated by them - from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century, examining the work of Lewis Carroll, L. Frank Baum, C. S. Lewis, Roald Dahl, J. K. Rowling and others from across the English-speaking world. The volume considers changing views on both the nature of the child and on the appropriateness of fantasy for the child reader, the role of children's fantasy literature in helping to develop the imagination, and its complex interactions with issues of class, politics and gender. The text analyses hundreds of works of fiction, placing each in its appropriate context within the tradition of fantasy literature.

Strategies of Fantasy

1992-03-22 Fiction
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Release : 1992-03-22
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis Strategies of Fantasy by : Brian Attebery

Download or read book Strategies of Fantasy written by Brian Attebery. This book was released on 1992-03-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early chapters, the author sorts out some of the confusion about the term fantasy, distinguishing the fantastic as a technique from fantasy as a popular formula and a literary genre. Looking back to the early reception of Tolkien's trend-setting epic fantasy, he points out how critical theory at the time was simply unable to account for either the strengths or the weaknesses of The Lord of the Rings. By contrast, critical methods developed for coping with postmodernist metafictions are shown to apply equally well to the genre of fantasy. Having worked primarily with older fantasies in his study of The Fantasy Tradition in American Literature, Attebery focuses here on important recent examples such as Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun, Suzette Haden Elgin's Ozark Trilogy, and John Crowley's Little, Big.

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