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The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature

2012-01-26 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).

The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature

2012-01-26 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2012-01-26
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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: This is the first introduction to the whole field of modern fantasy literature in the English-speaking world.

The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction

2003-11-20 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2003-11-20
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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction by : Edward James

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction written by Edward James. This book was released on 2003-11-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents

The Cambridge Companion to Literature on Screen

2007-05-10 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2007-05-10
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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Literature on Screen by : Deborah Cartmell

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Literature on Screen written by Deborah Cartmell. This book was released on 2007-05-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion offers a multi-disciplinary approach to literature on film and television. Writers are drawn from different backgrounds to consider broad topics, such as the issue of adaptation from novels and plays to the screen, canonical and popular literature, fantasy, genre and adaptations for children. There are also case studies, such as Shakespeare, Jane Austen, the nineteenth-century novel and modernism, which allow the reader to place adaptations of the work of writers within a wider context. An interview with Andrew Davies, whose work includes Pride and Prejudice (1995) and Bleak House (2005), reveals the practical choices and challenges that face the professional writer and adaptor. The Companion as a whole provides an extensive survey of an increasingly popular field of study.

The Cambridge Companion to American Literature and the Body

2022-06-30 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2022-06-30
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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to American Literature and the Body by : Travis M. Foster

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to American Literature and the Body written by Travis M. Foster. This book was released on 2022-06-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The human body has been depicted in a variety of ways across a range of cultural and historical locations. It has been described, variously, as a biological entity, clothing for the soul, a site of cultural production, a psychosexual construct, and a material encumbrance. Each of these different approaches brings with it a range of anthropological, political, theological, and psychological discourses that explore and construct identities and subject positions. This Companion examines connections between American literature and bodies from the eighteenth century through the present. It reveals the singular way that literature can help us understand the body's entanglement within social and biological influences, and it traces the body's existence within histories of race, gender, and ability. This volume details the genres, critical fields, and interpretive practices that best facilitate the analysis of bodies in the full span of American literary imaginings.

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