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Title Twentieth-century fantasists : essays on culture, society, and belief in twentieth-century mythopoeic literature / edited by Kath Filmer ; foreword by David Jasper
Published Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan ; New York : St. Martin's Press, 1992

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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
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.
Fantasy fiction, American -- History and criticism.
Fantasy literature, English -- History and criticism.
Myth in literature.
Popular literature -- English-speaking countries -- History and criticism.
SUBJECT English-speaking countries -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103111
Author Filmer-Davies, Kath, 1943-
LC no. 91048366
ISBN 0312079591 (St. Martin's Press)
0333569547
Other Titles 20th century fantasists