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Twentieth-Century Fantasists: Essays on Culture, Society and Belief in Twentieth-Century Mythopoeic Literature de Kath Filmer

Twentieth-Century Fantasists: Essays on Culture, Society and Belief in Twentieth-Century Mythopoeic Literature

Editat de Kath Filmer
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 dec 1991
Twentieth-Century Fantasists is a collection of essays which examine the way in which fantasy literature functions as cultural and social criticism. Essays on Tolkien, Le Guin, Angela Carter, H.G. Wells and C.S. Lewis are included: and also works by William Burroughs, Ford Madox Ford, and Salman Rushdie are discussed. The book surveys the social and cultural changes of the twentieth century as reflected in the works of fantasy writers.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781349221288
ISBN-10: 1349221287
Pagini: 212
Ilustrații: XVI, 212 p.
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 1992
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Foreword Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; K.Filmer Science, Myth and Utopia; R.Haynes Wells, The First Men in the Moon , and Lewis's Ransom Trilogy; D.Lake Visions from the Verge: Terror and Play in G.K. Chesterton's Imagination; E.Schenkel Meaning Everything: The Image of Pan; R.Dingley The Eternal Feminine Reclaimed: Ford Madox Ford's Medieval Fantasies; V.C.Kenny Viewing 'The Immense Panorama or Futility and Anarchy that is Contemporary History' in the The First Six Novels of Charles Williams; M.McKinley Tolkien, Epic Traditions and Golden Age Myths; C.A.Huttar Atseiniau O Ddyddiau Gynt: Welsh Myth and Culture in Contemporary Fantasy; K.Filmer Wordsworth in Space: The Fantasies of William S. Burroughs; D.Wu 'Escape!': That Dirty Word in Modern Fantasy: Le Guin's Earthsea; N.Talbot 'In the Demythologising Business: Angela Carter's The Infernal Desire Machine of Dr Hoffmann (1972); C.Manlove The Handmaid's Tale : Narrative Voice and the Primacy of the Tale; B.Garlick Hammering the Demons: Sword, Sorcery and Contemporary Society; J.Strugnell Centring the Margins: Postmodernism and Fantasy; S.Prickett Dreaming Each Other: The Discourse of Fantasy in Contemporary New Media; K.Filmer Index

Notă biografică

KATH FILMER teaches English at the University of Queensland. She is a Director of Writing and Editorial Services, taking workshops and seminars to readers' and writers' groups throughout Australia. She has edited The Victorian Fantasists and is author of The Fiction of C.S. Lewis: Mask and Mirror. She is a poet, publishing regularly in Poetry Monash, a journalist, and a writer of short fiction.