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Title Fantastic literature : a critical reader / David Sandner
Published Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2004

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Description xii, 357 pages ; 24cm
Contents Phaedrus (388-366 B.C.) / Plato -- The poetics (c. 334-323 B.C.) / Aristotle -- An apology for poetry (1595) / Philip Sidney -- "The fairy way of writing" (1712) / Joseph Addison -- Letters on chivalry and romance (1762) / Richard Hurd -- On the pleasure derived from objects of terror (1773) / Anna Laetitia Aikin (later Barbauld) -- Letter (1797) and Biographia literaria (1817) / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- On the supernatural in poetry (1826) / Ann Radcliffe -- On the supernatural in fictitious composition (1827) / Walter Scott -- Frauds on the fairies (1853) / Charles Dickens -- Fairy stories (1868) / John Ruskin -- The fantastic imagination (1890) / George MacDonald -- Fairy tales (1908) / G.K. Chesterton -- The uncanny (1919) / Sigmund Freud -- Introduction to Supernatural horror in literature (1927) / H.P. Lovecraft -- Critics (1956) / Damon Knight -- The mythos of summer : romance (1957) / Northrop Frye -- Characteristics of genre and plot composition in Dostoevsky's works (1963) / Mikhail Bakhtin -- Definitions of territory : fantasy (1970) / Italo Calvino -- The fantastic : a structural approach to a literary genre (1970) / Tzvetan Todorov -- From Elfland to Poughkeepsie (1973) / Ursula Le Guin -- Introduction to Modern fantasy (1975) / Colin Manlove -- The fantastic and fantasy (1976) / Eric Rabkin -- The evolution of a word (1979) / Stephen Prickett -- Magical narratives : on the dialectical use of genre criticism (1981) / Fredric Jameson -- The encounter with fantasy (1982) / Gary Wolfe -- Clinamen : towards a theory of fantasy (1982) / Harold Bloom -- Literary fantasy and ecological comedy (1985) / Don D. Elgin -- "Fantasy," from Critical terms for science fiction and fantasy (1986) / Gary Wolfe -- Prelude : nameless things and thingless names (1987) / Lance Olsen -- Fantasy as mode, genre, formula (1992) / Brian Attebery -- "Fantasy," from The encyclopedia of fantasy (1997) / John Clute -- Joseph Addison : the first critic of the fantastic (2000) / David Sandner -- Fabling to the near night (2000) / Jane Yolen -- Marxism and fantasy : an introduction (2002) / China MiƩville
Summary Unprecedented in range and scope, this volume serves as a record of and reference for the development of fantasy literature. Working to be inclusive, rather than exclusive, opening a dialogue wherever possible, Sandner presents the full range of debates concerning the fantastic and its relationship to the sublime, the Gothic, children's literature, romance and comedy, and the purposes of imaginative literature. Introductions to each essay, presented in full or excerpted for the most relevant commentary, situate the reader in the history of fantasy literature and the criticism it has inspired. New and important here are the claims for the early development of fantasy literature from the 18th century sublime. Previous histories of the genre regard Romanticism as a limit, but this reader draws from 18th, 19th, 20th, and even 21st century texts, revealing the unimagined scope of the field and developing a "map" of its early history for the first time. This important new volume presents, ultimately, the development of critical debates about the fantastic and its relationship to literature generally. - Publisher
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Fantasy literature -- History and criticism.
Author Sandner, David, 1966-
LC no. 2003068733
ISBN 0275980537 alkaline paper