Description |
xvi, 212 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents |
1. Introduction / Kath Filmer -- 2. Science, Myth and Utopia / Roslynn Haynes -- 3. Wells, The First Men in the Moon, and Lewis's Ransom Trilogy / David Lake -- 4. Visions from the Verge: Terror and Play in G.K. Chesterton's Imagination / Elmar Schenkel -- 5. Meaning Everything: The Image of Pan at the Turn of the Century / Robert Dingley -- 6. The Eternal Feminine Reclaimed: Ford Madox Ford's Medieval Fantasies / Virginia C. Kenny -- 7. Viewing 'the Immense Panorama or Futility and Anarchy that is Contemporary History' in the First Six Novels of Charles Williams / Marlene McKinley -- 8. Tolkien, Epic Traditions and Golden Age Myths / Charles A. Huttar -- 9. Atseiniau O Ddyddiau Gynt: Welsh Myth and Culture in Contemporary Fantasy / Kath Filmer -- 10. Wordsworth in Space: The Fantasies of William S. Burroughs / Duncan Wu -- 11. 'Escape!': That Dirty Word in Modern Fantasy: Le Guin's Earthsea / Norman Talbot |
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12. 'In the Demythologising Business: Angela Carter's The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr. Hoffmann (1972) / Colin Manlove -- 13. The Handmaid's Tale: Narrative Voice and the Primacy of the Tale / Barbara Garlick -- 14. Hammering the Demons: Sword, Sorcery and Contemporary Society / John Strugnell -- 15. Centring the Margins: Postmodernism and Fantasy / Stephen Prickett -- 16. Dreaming Each Other: The Discourse of Fantasy in Contemporary News Media / Kath Filmer |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Fantasy fiction, American -- History and criticism.
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Fantasy literature, English -- History and criticism.
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Myth in literature.
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Popular literature -- English-speaking countries -- History and criticism.
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SUBJECT |
English-speaking countries -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103111
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Author |
Filmer-Davies, Kath, 1943-
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LC no. |
91048366 |
ISBN |
0312079591 (St. Martin's Press) |
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0333569547 |
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